Personnel Directory Agricultural Extension Service May 1914- June1989

1llEUNIVERSITY OPTENNESSBE, USDA, 'lllNNESSBESTAlE UNIVERSITY, ANDCOUNTY GOVERNMENTS COOPERATING

FOREWORD

On May 8, 1989, the Extension System celebrated the 75th Anniversary of the signing of the Smith-Lever Act by President Woodrow Wilson. That act, passed by the United States Congress in 1914, established the Cooperative Extension System, a uniquely American institution. The Smith-Lever Act has been amended frequently and was rewritten In 1953. However, its statement of the basic purpose of Cooperative Extension remains the same: "To aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects related to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same.· On July 1, 1914, the College of Agriculture of the and the USDA, cooperating under the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act, organized a Division of Extension, now known as the Agricultural Extension Service. The reason for Extension's existence today is the same as it has been for 75 years -- to deliver effective educational programs to serve the needs of our clientele. Our programs are dynamic. Our clientele or the people in our audience are a passing parade, and our subject matter changes with new research and with the needs of our clientele. In addition, the Extension team members change through professional growth and with departures from and additions to the team. After 75 years of serving the Tennessee public, the Agricultural Extension Service has become an essential resource for Tennesseans in solving problems and developing leadership and life skills related to youth, family, community, agriculture and natural resources. This role will continue. The tools of the trade will change. The research-based information will change. The priority of problems to be solved will change. But. Extension will be needed. To cope with and adjust to the needs of tomorrow, we must keep our mission clearly in mind, have confidence in ourselves, know our subject matter, and continue to add to our knowledge. Extension will not survive on the basis of memories in the hearts and minds of the farmers and their families of this country who have benefited from Extension programs over the past 75 years. Tomorrow, as today, Extension programs live and breathe in the lives of those people who are currently improving the way they live and make a living as a result of Extension education. For tomorrow, as for the past 75 years, education is the mission, but it is never completed. Our people -- both young and older -- and those of future generations need us and the great Institutions we serve. The Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service has an enviable record of success, and we are recognizing that with our 75th Annlversay Celebration. Thomas Jefferson put the past in perspective when he wrote, ·1 like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

�Mwnen August, 1989 Dean, Agricultural Extension Service

DEDICATED to the Deans and Directors of the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service who have served with vision, courage, pride and distinction throughout the 75-year history of the organization.

PROFILES OF LEADERSHIP

DR. ALBERT KEFFER was a natural choice for the first director of the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service. As a noted authority on horticulture and landscape design. he came to the University of Tennessee in 1900 as head of the horticulture department. From an organization of less than 40 employees in 1914, Dr. Keffer saw his staff grow to almost 500. including officials. specialists and county agricultural agents in all 95 counties. home agents In 70 counties and 4-H Club agents in 62 counties. He passed away on December 30. 1935. As a lasting tribute to his contributions to the rural people of Tennessee, the 4-H Club boys and girls chose his name for the battleship launched under their sponsorship in June 1944.

DR. C. E. BREHM. who had served as assistant director for 15 years. became the second director following the death of Dr. Keffer. Dr. Brehm joined the Extension Service in 1917 as a marketing specialist. His first work was the formation of cooperative marketing pools. which still function successfully in the state. Through his training and great understanding of farm and home problems. and his well known organizational skills. he was popular throughout the South. He served from 1936 until his appointment as President of the University of Tennessee in 1948.

DR. J. H. McLEOD became director of the Extension Service in 1947 and served for 10 years. He joined the staff in 1921 as a swine specialist. His outstanding work in two-litter development and later as coordinator of the AAA corn-hog program is legendary. He was largely responsible for setting up the cooperative Extension-NA Test Demonstration Program in the 1930s. His work in agricultural economics and program planning gained wide recognition. Because of his long association with Extension work and his broad knowledge of agricultural conditions, he rendered a wide service to the farm people of Tennessee.

DR. VERNON W. DARTER succeeded Dr. McLeod as the director of Extension in 1957. He had previously served as a county agent. and professor and leader of the Extension Training and Studies department which he organized at UT. In June 1968. his title was changed to Dean of Agricultural Extension. Under his leadership, professional competency of personnel was greatly improved. Nearly half of the county agents acquired advanced college degrees and more than half of the state specialists held Ph.Ds. The administrative staff was reorganized under his direction. with more emphasis placed on educational programs in agriculture. home economics and youth at the county level. Dr. Darter retired in June 1972.

DR. WILLIAM D. BISHOP was named dean of Extension in 1972. He had received a Master's Degree from the University of Tennessee in 1954 and was appointed associate agronomist. After earning the Ph. D. from Purdue University, he was promoted to head of the agronomy department. Two years later he was named state leader of Extension agricultural programs. Under Dr. Bishop's leadership the Extension Service continued to grow, especially through widespread development of soil testing and Increased activity in 4-H Club programs. He retired in March 1977.

DR. M. LLOYD DOWNEN is the present dean of the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service. He assumed his duties In 1977 after having served as professor and leader of the Extension agricultural economics department. and as assistant dean for five years Immediately prior to his present position. He Is recognized nationally for his administrative skills. Consequently, he has served on many advisory boards and councils, including the National Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP) and the National 4-H Council Board of Trustees. He was selected by his peers to chair the Southern Directors Association. He has emphasized balanced programming among the Agriculture, Home Economics, 4-H and Community Resource Development components.

During his administration, Dr. Downen has led Tennessee's 4-H Club program to an unprecedented l O years with more national project winners than any other state in the nation. Under his leadership, the Agricultural Extension Service programs are helping farmers and farm families in Tennessee meet the social and economic crisis which they face in a changing agricultural economy. As dean, Dr. Downen has seen the Extension Service come to a crossroads in a changing agricultural environment, both in Tennessee and in the nation. He Is now addressing the issues that will face our society not only today, but long into the 21st century.

THROUGH THE DECADES

On May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Lever Act which legally established the Extension Service as the educational branch of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Extension Service of today continues to be a unique nationwide system, guided and funded by a partnership of Federal, State and County governments. It is an organization with a proud past and a promising future.

1910's THE POVERTY YEARS

* Poverty takes hold in rural America.

* Girls' tomato clubs and boys· corn clubs meet for the first time.

* Extension hires its first Home Economics Specialists.

* World War I begins (1917).

* Extension works to improve food production and food preservation.

* America's new slogan is, "Food Will Win the War."

* Agents teach canning, butter making, bread baking and poultry care.

* Agents organize clubs to reach many more families with educational information.

1920's THE PRE-DEPRESSION YEARS

* Farm prices crash, causing economic problems for farmers.

* The Division of Extension changes its name to the Agricultural Extension Service.

* Farmers realize that prosperity will depend on the use of modern farming methods.

* The first 4-H Club camps open their doors to American youth. 1930's THE LEAN YEARS * Economic depression sweeps the nation. * Extension formulates relief programs to counteract rapidly falling prices. * Agents teach home and money management. * The market slumps during a high-yield year. Agents respond by teaching families how to use surplus cotton to make mattresses. * Extension agents conduct a massive meat canning program which makes use of surplus meat and saves . * Farmers diversify and grow strawberries. tobacco and capons for special markets. * Farmers begin to use new phosphate fertilizers. developed by the Tennessee Valley Authority. * Thousands of Tennessee farm families wire their homes for electricity.

1940's WORLD WAR II * Extension organizes a system of neighborhood leaders who deliver urgent war information to farm families. * Neighborhood leaders inform rural families of the nation's need for products and resources such as: scrap rubber. iron, enriched flour and increased war bond sales. * Extension organizes groups to discuss critical issues. including: wartime farm policy. farm equipment sharing and fire prevention and control. * Communication by radio and telephone becomes available to virtually everyone, partially because of work done through the neighborhood leader system. * The "frozen food revolution· begins after the War with the opening of cooperative community freezer plants. Agents have the opportunity to teach proper freezing methods. * Extension helps Young Farmers and Homemakers organize into an effective group. 1950's THE PROSPEROUS YEARS * Technological advances bring to the farm improved hybrids, new varieties, high analysis fertilizers and artificial breeding techniques. * Extension home economists diversify into new areas. such as consumer education. * The urban consumer welcomes a new audience for Extension information. * Marketing and distribution of commodities takes on increased importance. * Weed control in field crops begins to change from hand and machine cultivation to herbicide use. * Farmers switch from hand harvesting of crops to using combines. * Farm families actively seek out information about modernizing equipment, improving farm management techniques and upgrading livestock. * The new emphasis in 4-H Club work is on project-related activities. * The Tennessee 4-H Club Foundation is organized to support 4-H through private funding.

1960's THE TURBULENT YEARS * As a result of societal changes, Extension's audience becomes more diverse. * Agricultural agents teach farmers scouting techniques which help establish an "economic threshold" before spraying crops for insect and disease control. * The Expanded Food and Nutrition Program helps improve diets of lower income families. * Tennessee farmers focus on marketing commodities such as timber, feeder calves and feeder pigs. * Extension places a renewed emphasis on consumer education. * Agents help farmers' group meetings become better organized and more focused on the real needs of farmers. New opportunitites emerge, as the statewide Form Management Schools. * 4-H continues to be project-oriented. New projects include: horse, dog, automotive, personal development and photography. 1970's THE YEARS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Economic conditions lead to the "back-to-basics" movement in Extension. • Extension programs focus on timely issues such as the new technologies, the energy crisis, inflation and family stress. • The increased use of print and electronic media gives Extension the ability to reach larger and more diverse groups of people. • Enrollment in the 4-H Club programs reaches a new high as National 4-H Club Congress winners exemplify all that's best in American youth. • Extension responds to clientele needs through an increased emphasis on family life education programs, including child development, parenting, and family relations. • Consumers express a new interest in nutrition and food safety. Extension responds with programs geared to consumer needs. • Farm exports increase sharply as farms gain in acreage. • Farm income becomes highly variable.

1980's THE MOVE TO ISSUE-BASED INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS • Extension programs continue to benefit from the use of mass media, including video conferencing. • Helping families deal with stress becomes a top priority of the Extension SeNice. • The uncertain economy and tightening federal budget prompt Extension to take a fresh look at program priorities. • Teams of volunteers and Extension staff teach leadership techniques statewide through the Family Community Leadership program. • Net farm income declines sharply in mid-decade; this leads to a financial crisis for many farm families. • Farmers start using the MANAGE program, an intensive educational package which teaches financial management, family economics and stress management. • Extension programs continue to place a strong emphasis on consumer education. 1980's (continued)

* Tennessee takes part in the 4-H LABO Exchange Program, in which Tennessee 4-H Club families host Japanese young people and 4-H Club members, in turn can visit Japan.

* The Tennessee Extension Homemakers Council organizes and is granted membership in the National Extension Homemakers Council.

1990's NEW OPPORTUNITIES

* Extension programs focus on the "Initiatives· -­ critical Issues the people of Tennessee now and into the 21st Century.

* Competitiveness and Profitability of Tennessee Agriculture * Alternative Agricultural Opportunities * Water Quality * Conservation and Management of Natural Resources * Revitalizing Rural Tennessee * Improving Nutrition, Diet and Health * Family and Economic Well-Being * Building Human Capital * Youth at Risk

* Through the use of electronic technology, the Extension system will be more efficient than ever in delivering educational programs to the people it serves.

EXTENSION WORKER'S CREED

I BELIEVE in people and their hopes, their aspirations and their faith, in their right to make their own plans and arrive at their own decisions; in their ability and power to enlarge their lives and plan for the happiness of those they love. I BELIEVE that education, of which Extension work is an essential part, is basic in stimulating individual initiative, self-determination and leadership, that these are the keys to democracy and that people, when given facts they understand will act not only in their self-interest, but also in the interest of society. I BELIEVE that education is a lifelong process and the greatest university is the home; that my success as a teacher is proportional to those qualities of mind and spirit that give me welcome entrance to the homes of the families I serve. I BELIEVE in intellectual freedom to search for and present the truth without bias and with courteous tolerance toward the view of others. I BELIEVE that the Extension Service is a link between the people and the ever-changing discoveries in the laboratories. I BELIEVE in the public institution of which I am a part. I BELIEVE in my own work and in the opportunity I have to make my life useful to mankind. Because I BELIEVE these things, I am an Extension worker.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Appreciation is expressed to the following people or groups who have contributed time and talent in the preparation of this historic document:

.....The TENNESSEE EXTENSION HOMEMAKERS COUNCIL for permission to use excerpts from their publication, Reflections and Images. a Tennessee Heritage Project .

.....GARY DAGNAN, Assistant Professor - Graphics, and WANDA H. RICHART, Assistant Professor - Publications for their assistance in art, layout and production.

.....DR. LEWIS H. DICKSON, Professor Emeritus. Agricultural and Extension Education. for researching the administrative, specialists, and district supervisor personnel lists .

.....DR. M. LLOYD DOWNEN, Dean, for his enthusiastic support and encouragement during the creation of this directory.

.....DR. D. RAY HUMBERD, Assistant Dean, and BETTY LOU SEWELL, Personnel Assistant, for coordinating, compiling, and editing this publication .

..... MIRIAN WRIGHT for her dedication to the tremendous task of data entry.

Every reasonable effort has been made to present the employment records as accurately as possible. Apologies are expressed for any errors or omissions. Personnel lists were compiled from various sources, including the famous "Green Sheets," dating back to 1918.

* Indicates Current Employees

** Agricultural Extension Staff Payrolled by Tennessee State University

75TH ANNIVERSARY ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

M. Lloyd Downen Dean

Billy G. Hicks Mildred F. Clarke D. Ray Humberd Assoc. Dean Assoc. Dean Ass't Dean

James E. Farrell Betty L. Sewell Administrator Personel 1890 Programs Assistant

District Supervisors

Jrunes McKee MelvinArnett Eugene Bryan

Rural Peace Jesse Francis

Associate District Supervisors

Agricultural Prograins

Richard Powell Larry Glasgow Frank Brown

Wm. A. Warren Luther Whitaker

Associate District Supervisors

Hom.e Econom.ics Progr8.lll

Alpha Worrell Patricia Ganter Mary F. Hamilton

Linda Byler Nazza Noble

ADMINISTRATORS

The awesome responsibility for providing effective, fair and acceptable leadership has been in the capable hands of competent administrators throughout the history of the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service.

The growth and accountability of the organization is a tribute to the men and women who have served in the various administrative positions. Their execution of duties, protection of the organizations' reputation, encouragement of professional growth of the staff, proper use of public funds, sensitivity in the selection of personnel and commitment to the mission of Smith-Lever, which mandates specific actions, has resulted in a record of achievement, service and accredibility.

Under the leadership of people whose names are listed on the following pages, the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service takes pride in the past and looks forward to a promising future.

ADMINISTRATORS

Director /Dean

1914 - 1935 Dr. Charles Albert Keefer 1936 - 1948 Dr. C. E. Brehm 1948 - 1957 Dr. J. H. McLeod 1957 - 1972 Dr. Vernon W. Darter 1972 - 1977 Dr. William D. Bishop 1977 - * Dr. M. Lloyd Downen

Vice Director

1948 - 1956 R. W. Moore

Associate Dean/Director

1948 - 1963 E. C. McReynolds 1957 - 1958 R. W. Moore 1968 - 1972 William D. Bishop 1977 - 1988 Troy W. Hinton 1982 - • Mildred F. Clarke 1985 - * Billy G. Hicks

Assistant Director - Home Demonstration Work

1918 - 1920 Virginia P. Moore 1920 - 1942 Margaret A. Ambrose

Assistant Dean/Director

1918 - 1920 William A. Schoenfeld 1920 - 1935 C. E. Brehm 1936 - 1945 H. s. Nichols 1936 - 1948 J. H. McLeod 1946 - 1948 R. W. Moore 1958 - 1966 D. M. Thorpe 1963 - 1968 William D. Bishop 1970 - 1974 Virginia F. Boswell 1970 - 1977 Troy W. Hinton 1972 - 1977 M. Lloyd Downen 1974 - 1982 Mildred F. Clarke 1979 - 1985 Billy G. Hicks 1989 - • D. Ray Humberd

Assistant to the Director /Dean 1918 - 1919 A L. Love 1966 - 1969 0. Clinton Shelby 1969 - 1970 Troy W. Hinton 1977 - 1979 Billy G. Hicks

State Program Leader - Agriculture 1959 - 1963 William D. Bishop

State Program Leader - Home Economics 1959 - 1970 Virginia F. Boswell

Assistant State Agent in Negro County Agent Work 1936 - 1965 Willard H. Williams

Assistant State Agent in Negro Home Demonstration Work 1936 - 1970 Bessie L. Walton

Co-ordinator/Administrator of Cooperative Programs 1946 - 1948 E. C. McReynolds

Administrator - 1890 Extension Programs, Tennessee State University 1971 - 1989 James E. Farrell

Financial/Budget Officer 1955 - 1969 James L. Anderson

Director of Business Affairs 1970 - " 0. Clinton Shelby

Director of Extension Studies 1975 - 1977 Lewis H. Dickson Director of Personnel 1972 - 1975 Lewis H. Dickson

Director of Services 1968 - 1985 Fletcher Luck

Director of Special Programs 1971 - 1979 William F. Moss

Personnel Assistant 1961 - • Betty L. Sewell DISTRICT SUPERVISORS

From the very beginning, district supervisory personnel have been the pivotal point of the Extension Service organization. As administrative liason between the dean's office and the county staff, they have led with a dedication equal to none.

Originally, the state was divided into four districts. As shifts in population took place, highway and rural road systems improved, industry and commerce spread across the state, the counties were redistributed and a fifth district was created. Prior to 1961, each district staff was composed of two district agents ...one in home economics and one in agriculture. A reorganization of the administrative structure resulted in adding a third person at the district level and changing the titles to District Supervisor and Associate District Supervisor. Thus, more time was allocated for personnel administration, program planning and implementation. The longevity and stability of the district personnel is a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of those who have served at the district level. Their finesse in guiding the development of the countystaff in program delivery is the bulwark and pride of the organization.

DISTRICT I SUPERVISORS JACKSON

Agricultural Supervisors 1918 - 1934 H. S. Nichols 1918 - 1919 S. G. Abernathy 1934 - 1956 Judd Brooks 1955 - 1977 H. T. Short 1961 - 1966 0. Clinton Shelby 1966 - 1987 Gene W. Turner 1977 - 1987 Haywood Luck 1988 - * James W. McKee 1988 - * Richard Powell

Home Economics Supervisors 1918 - 1918 Martha C. Thomas 1918 - 1925 Ruth Arey 1925 - 1959 Mildred Jacocks 1959 - 1979 Estelle Vines 1979 - * Alpha R. Worrell

DISTRICT II SUPERVISORS NASHVILLE

Agricultural Supervisors (Columbia)

1918 - 1922 J. M. Dean 1922 - 1956 A. B. Harmon

(Nashville)

1956 - 1979 Milburn Jones 1961 - 1980 Owen E. Hodges 1979 - 1989 Melvin H. Arnett 1981 - * J. Larry Glasgow

Home Economics Supervisors (Columbia)

19 18 - 1921 Kate M. Wells 1921 - 1922 Hattie F. Wendel 1922 - 1926 Carrie Warklns Foster (Nashville)

1 927 - 1929 Geneva White 1929 - 1961 Helen Cullens 1961 - 1983 Margaret Ussery 1984 - 1985 Bonnie Sheeley 1985 - * Patricia Ganter

DISTRICT Ill SUPERVISORS CHATTANOOGA

Agricultural Supervisors

1918 - 1920 D. T. Hardin 1920 - 1920 F. S. Chance 1921 - 1923 E. A McLean 1923 - 1935 Ebb Thomae 1924 - 1925 AS. Chapin 1935 - 1952 C. L. Doughty 1953 - 1967 Ed. H. Swingle 1961 - 1969 Paul M. Koger 1967 - " Eugene Bryan 1969 - 1978 Ray C. Stamey 1979 - 1984 Arnold Hunter 1984 - 1988 Robert Childress 1988 - " Frank Brown

Home Economics Supervisors

1918 - N/A Elsie M. Dugger 1921 - 1922 Julia Reagan 1922 - 1933 Lizzie B. Reagan 1935 - 1943 Barna Finger 1943 - 1970 Mary Stanfill 1970 - 1980 Margaret L. Clem 1981 - " Mary Frances Hamilton

DISTRICT IV SUPERVISORS COOKEVILLE

Agricultural Supervisors

1918 - 1919 F. S. Chance 1948 - 1962 N. B. Morgan 1961 - 1985 A. C. Clark 1962 - 1963 Tom R. Langford 1963 - * Rural A. Peace 1986 - * William A. Warren

Home Economics Supervisors

1918 - 1919 Catherine Clark 1948 - 1952 Margaret Bacon Hale 1952 - 1955 Alta F. Thomas 1955 - 1959 Estelle Vines 1959 - 1960 Margaret Miles 1961 - 1972 Mary Neal Alexander 1972 - 1985 Virginia Ruth Geary 1985 - * Linda F. Byler

DISTRICT V SUPERVISORS KNOXVILLE

Agricultural Supervisors 1918 - 1920 C. L. Doughty 1919 - 1919 J. L. Robinson 1919 - 1919 A. L. Love 1920 - 1957 B. M. Elrod 1923 - 1925 F. S. Chance 1923 - 1929 0. N. Smith 1926 - 1928 R. M. Murphy 1930 - 1930 C. G. Filler 1934 - 1936 Fred McFee 1942 - 1952 Crosby Murray 1957 - 1965 Crosby Murray 1965 - * Jesse E. Francis 1967 - 1983 John B. Brower, Jr. 1983 - * Luther Whitaker

Home Economics Supervisors 1918 - 1919 Margaret A. Ambrose 1920 - 1921 Annie L. Whittle 1921 - 1923 Mayme Parrott 1923 - 1957 Oma Worley 1958 - 1971 Alta F. Thomas 1972 - 1974 Mildred F. Clarke 1974 - * Naua Noble

SPECIALISTS

"Teacher of teachers,· specialists are highly trained to measure the pulse beat of state, national and global technology in their selected fields of expertise. Through their interpretation of research and its application to Tennessee farm conditions, they work with the county staffs in the dissemination of practical and useful information to the rural families of this great state.

The Great Depression, World War II, the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and a changing economy are all reflected in the constantly changing roles of the specialists down through the years. The following roster of specialists is reflective of Extension's versatility in adapting programs to serve the needs of its clientele.

During this 75th Anniversary year, the Tennessee Extension Service takes pride in honoring the men and women who have served as subject-matter specialists.

AGRICULTURAL SPECIALISTS

Agricultural Adjustment

1934 - 1942 Fred W. Colby 1935 - 1937 William Moser 1935 - 1941 Grover Warmbrod 1935 - 1935 W. C. Pelton 1936 - 1937 D. H. Hughes 1937 - 1941 J. L. Primm

Agricultural Economics

1947 - 1956 J. L. Anderson 1947 - 1950 E. P. Callahan 1947 - 1959 Frank J. Walwrath 1947 - 1973 Frank DeFrlese 1947 - 1947 L. J. Strickland 1948 - 1969 Eugene Gambill 1948 - 1948 Rodney K. Purnell 1950 - 1951 Charles Hendrix 1951 - 1958 D. Mallory Thorpe 1952 - 1955 Luther H. Keller 1952 - 1952 Hugh A. Powers 1956 - 1956 Robert J. Bevins 1956 - 1958 Vernon E. Ross 1957 - 1958 James L. Pipkin 1957 - 1961 0. Cllnton Shelby 1957 - 1962 Allen W. Woodard 1959 - 1972 M. Uoyd Downen 1961 - 1977 BIiiy G. Hicks 1961 - 1966 R. L. Carter 1962 - 1967 Estel H. Hudson 1963 - 1968 Troy W. Hinton 1963 - 1963 Alex McNeil 1964 - 1975 Bobby H. Pentecost 1965 - 1966 Gene Turner 1966 - 1967 D. Ray Humbard 1968 - 1985 Herbert N. Walch 1970 - • Charles M. Farmer 1970 - 1988 D. Ray Humbard 1971 - • Clark D. Garland 1973 - • Estel H. Hudson 1973 - • Emmit L. Rawls 1975 - • Alvin E. Wade ** 1979 - • Robert P. Jenkins 1980 - 1986 Robert W. Burney 1981 - • David L. Hunter 1986 - • Larry A. Johnson Agricultural Engineering

1918 - 1919 James Arentson 1919 - 1925 H. B. Bliss 1935 - 1949 G. G. Martin 1936 - 1938 M. M. Jones 1936 - 1956 M. T. Gowder 1946 - 1951 H. B. Jones 1950 - 1950 Edward B. Hale 1950 - 1954 Delbert P. Schwab 1951 - 1971 Max Falkner 1951 - 1951 WIiiiam T. Robison 1951 - 1960 Edward B. Hale 1952 - 1953 Clyde Petty 1954 - • D. Houston Luttrell 1956 - 1957 James A. Mulllns 1958 - 1968 John M. Johnson 1959 - 1961 James A. Mulllns 1959 - 1959 Lewis E. Larson 1960 - • Kenneth Eugene DeBusk 1961 - 1971 Albert J. Swearingen 1964 - 1968 James A. Mullins 1970 - • Ozzie Vaigneur 1972 - • George F. Grandle 1973 - 1980 Albert J. Swearingen 1977 - 1982 James B. Wills, Jr. 1983 - • James B. Wills, Jr. 1988 - • James A. Mullins

Agricultural & Extension Education

1935 - 1948 E. D. Stivers 1948 - 1956 Claire Gilbert 1955 - 1957 Vernon W. Darter 1956 - 1957 Benjamin T. Cockrill 1957 - 1957 Ann Lee 1957 - 1967 Lewis H. Dickson 1958 - 1969 Claire Gilbert 1959 - 1985 Robert 5. Dotson 1967 - • Cecil E. Carter 1977 - 1988 Lewis H. Dickson 1984 - 1986 Joan Kines 1986 - • Roy L. Lessly 1986 - • Robert W. Burney Animal Science

1918 - 1920 R. M. Murphy 1918 - 1919 Carl G. Filler 1918 - 1918 Roy Priest 1918 - 1920 R. P. Hite 1919 - 1947 L. A Richardson 1920 - 1920 AL. Jerdon 1920 - 1938 C. C. Flanery 1920 - 1934 J. H. McLeod 1935 - 1943 J. C. Snow 1937 - 1963 J. S. Robinson 1939 - 1953 Paul P. Hite 1946 - 1973 William P. Tyrrell 1949 - 1964 Joseph W. Houston 1953 - 1979 Fred C. Powell 1957 - 1961 Tom R. Langford 1962 - 1970 William G. Brown 1963 - 1965 Neils W. Robinson 1965 - 1983 Haley Jamison 1964 - 1985 James G. O'Neal 1971 - " Frank David Kirkpatrick 1971 - 1972 James R. McFall 1972 - 1981 Frank B. Masincupp 1973 - " James B. Neel 1973 - " Clyde D. Lane 1973 - " James Tracy, Jr. 1974 - 1981 Ronald R. Johnson 1978 - " Olen Frederick Harper 1979 - " Richard H. Simms 1980 - 1982 Douglas L. Hixon 1985 - " William W. Gill 1986 - " Glenn E. Conatser

Architect

1935 - 1950 Max Falkner 1950 - 1951 William T. Robison

Church Relations

1919 - 1920 T. F. Dixon

Communications

1918 - 1919 Harry B. Potter 1919 - 1919 J. L. Caton 1920 - 1921 Eva Malone 1920 - 1954 A J. Sims 1935 - 1938 Francis H. Stanley Communications

1935 - 1945 Joe Elliott 1935 - 1961 Sam Carson 1943 - 1943 Fletcher Sweet 1946 - 1974 Fletcher Sweet 1946 - 1946 Roland Daugherty 1948 - 1971 Ralph McDade 1950 - 1951 Katherine Simpson 1952 - 1963 Rosslyn B. WIison 1955 - 1956 J. Cordell Hatch 1956 - 1960 A. J. Sims 1958 - 1960 J. Cordell Hatch 1960 - 1973 Ralph Hamilton 1961 - 1965 Larry L. Krug 1962 - 1967 Abner B. Lemert 1963 - 1965 Judith Procknow 1964 - 1968 Alvin C. Blake 1965 - 1967 Nancy Lou Russell 1966 - • Conrad A. Reinhardt 1966 - • George C. Mays 1970 - 1984 Alvin C. Blake 1970 - 1973 Edward Bible 1975 - 1979 Elaine K. Wiedemann 1975 - 1978 James A. Steadman 1976 - • Gary R. Dagnan 1979 - 1986 Robert D. Grimes 1979 - 1983 David G. Hill 1979 - 1984 Connie A. Gatly Williams 1984 - • Charles T. Walker 1984 - • Wanda H. Richart 1985 - • Nancy M. Cann 1987 - • Barbara Ann Peloquin

Community Development

1948 - 1954 Milburn E. Jones 1953 - 1957 Crosby Murray 1956 - 1961 Joe W. Brimm 1956 - 1958 Margaret M. Miles

Community Service

1918 - 1948 Elizabeth Moreland

Cotton Marketing

1922 - 1922 L. A Huff Dairy Science

1918 - 1958 C. A. Hutton 1918 - 1919 H. E. Baker 1918 - 1937 G. N. Tobey 1918 - 1923 W. C. Clevenger 1918 - 1919 T. C. Haddon 1923 - 1949 L. S. Edwards 1937 - 1947 C. W. Reeves 1939 - 1945 0. E. Van Cleave 1945 - 1955 L. 0. Colebank 1946 - 1965 Lynn Copeland 1947 - 1980 Clyde K. Chappell 1948 - 1984 V. D. Parsons 1948 - 1953 William F. Moss 1949 - 1950 William H. Armstrong 1950 - 1953 John Burl Peterson 1953 - 1961 John B. Brower, Jr. 1956 - 1958 Joe Weldon Armstrong 1959 - • T. Ray Spann 1961 - 1989 William M. Miller 1967 - 1977 Herbert C. Holt 1983 - • William M. Graves 1984 - 1986 Eugene M. Coffey. Jr. 1985 - • Jeffrey Mitchell

Entomology & Plant Pathology

1918 - 1920 Jessie M. Robinson 1946 - 1950 J. 0. Andes 1950 - 1976 Robert P. Mullet 1963 - 1965 Charles A Thomas, Jr. 1965 - • Harry A Williams 1965 - • Charles H. Hadden 1965 - 1974 Willie C. Johnson 1971 - 1974 Stelman Bennett 1972 - 1973 L. Dole Hows 1972 - 1981 Jimmy E. Pendergrass 1972 - • Edward E. Burgess 1973 - • Melvin A. Newman 1974 - 1983 Carroll Southards 1977 - 1979 Raymond G. Thompson 1978 - 1986 Nancy J. Taylor 1980 - • Charles R. Patrick 1981 - • Richard E. Caron 1985 - • Alan S. Windham 1985 - • Jaime Yanes, Jr. 1985 - • Steven C. Bost Farm Labor

1918 - 1919 C. E. Allred 1943 - 1945 Robert W. Moore 1943 - 1948 Fred W. Colby 1943 - 1946 Elizabeth M. Lauderbach 1943 - 1948 Eugene W. Gambill 1946 - 1947 Paul Horton 1946 - 1948 George T. Peters 1946 - 1947 R. W. Moore

Assistant District - Emergency Farm Labor 1943 - 1944 Eugene S. Permenter (Jackson) 1943 - 1945 Ben P. Clift, Jr. (Nashville) 1943 - 1945 Paul M. Horton (Chattanooga) 1943 - 1944 Hugh Felts (Knoxville)

Farm Management

1928 - 1934 J. C. McAmis 1928 - 1930 R. M. Murphy 1930 - 1943 Frank Joyce 1930 - 1942 H. C. Homes 1930 - 1935 William Moser 1930 - 1947 E. P. Callahan 1934 - 1936 J. H. McLeod 1935 - 1947 F. J. Walrath 1935 - 1945 H. S. Duncan 1935 - 1947 James L. Anderson 1938 - 1938 Joe Elliott 1940 - 1945 J. H. McLeod 1940 - 1943 Alex McNeil 1940 - 1945 Frank M. De Friese 1940 - 1941 N. B. Morgan 1940 - 1945 P. W. Worden 1940 - 1945 L. J. Strickland 1942 - 1942 W. H. Brown 1944 - 1945 N. B. Morgan 1944 - 1945 Alex McNeil

Farm Security Administration

1939 - 1940 L. H. Halton

Food Technology & Science

1972 - 1985 James Thomas Miles 1983 - • Curtis C. Melton Food Techonology & Science (continued)

1971 - 1973 F. David Kirkpatrick 1972 - 1989 Ivon E. McCarty 1974 - 1980 Sammy K. Winfree 1977 - • Herbert Holt 1985 - • Hugh 0. Jaynes

Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries

1919 - 1923 R. S. Maddox 1926 - 1957 G. B. Shivery 1947 - 1949 John B. Sharp, Jr. 1949 - 1982 James G. Warmbrod 1952 - • John B. Sharp, Jr. 1961 - 1976 Earl R. Cady 1966 - 1972 William E. Duggan 1972 - 1987 James E. Byford 1974 - • Donald A. Stumbo 1977 - 1985 Gerhardt Schneider 1978 - • Thomas K. Hill 1983 - • George Hopper 1986 - • George T. Weaver 1987 - • Rick Lee Cantrell 1987 - • R. Neal Wilkins 1988 - • Michael M. King

4-H Club

1919 - 1919 A. L. Love 1920 - 1948 G. L. Herrington 1929 - 1932 0. N. Smith 1932 - 1933 H. H. Jones 1936 - 1945 L. 0. Colebank 1936 - 1937 Margaret Ambrose 1943 - 1946 Fanny Gibbs 1946 - 1948 Paul W. Rose 1946 - 1959 Aubry Scott 1948 - 1962 Fred W. Colby 1949 - 1956 Lonnie Safley 1952 - 1968 E. B. Jenkins 1955 - 1957 Martha Kirby Fort 1956 - 1961 George S. Foster 1957 - 1958 Ann Lee 1959 - 1962 Margaret Gulley 1961 - 1961 Betty L. Sewell 1961 - 1963 G. L. Carter, Jr. 1961 - 1970 Marifloyd Hamil 1964 - 1969 Polly Fussell 1969 - 1976 Anna B. Lucas 4-H Club (continued) 1969 - • Ben T. Powell 1970 - 1977 Glenda Howell Jellicorse 1970 - 1975 Ester Hatcher 1972 - 1980 Charles B. Spencer .. 1974 - • Oliver F. Cook 1977 - • Mary Ruth Henderson 1977 - • Martha Jo Tolley 1980 - 1985 Jimmy L. Smith .. 1981 - • Teresa H. Goddard 1982 - • Angela S. Mayers .. 1983 - 1984 Robert L. Renner, Jr. 1986 - • Stephen R. Sutton

Marketing

1918 - 1920 C. B. Brehm 1918 - 1919 A. D. Knox 1919 - 1920 0. L. Farris 1920 - 1957 A. L. Jerdon 1930 - 1934 Fred W. Colby 1930 - 1955 Isadora Williams 1934 - 1946 J. C. Powell 1935 - 1936 J. S. Robinson 1946 - 1950 Ronald Slayton 1947 - 1948 Marian Heard 1947 - 1949 Jane Glass 1949 - 1955 Allen W. Woodard

Organizations

1920 - 1922 T. F. Dixon 1923 - 1926 Ralph J. Morgan

Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design

1918 - 1919 J. C. Miles 1923 - 1923 Harry G. Halcomb 1926 - 1934 W. C. Pelton 1936 - 1958 W. C. Pelton 1946 - 1969 J. J. Bird 1947 - 1972 John C. Clark 1962 - 1982 Donald B. Williams 1968 - 1972 Robert D. Freeland 1970 - 1986 James L. Pointer 1972 - 1976 Donald F. Wagner 1977 - 1983 Willard T. Witte 1982 - • Douglas Crater Ornamental Horticulture & Landscape Design (continued)

1984 - 1989 Kenneth Tilt 1987 - 1987 Richard Vetanonvetz 1988 - * Brian E. Corr 1985 - • Thomas J. Samples

Plant & Soil Science

1918 - 1928 J. C. McAmls 1918 - 1918 C. E. Allred 1922 - 1953 R. H. MIiton 1931 - 1932 F. S. Chance 1935 - 1945 H. E. Hendricks 1937 - 1947 G. S. Hollingsworth 1939 - 1950 H. W. Wellhausen 1944 - 1949 B. W. Hatcher 1948 - 1957 Webster Pendergrass 1948 - 1950 L. J. Strickland 1950 - 1959 William D. Bishop 1951 - 1953 Lewis H. Dickson 1952 - 1954 H. W. Wellhausen 1952 - 1987 Gilbert N. Rhodes 1952 - 1981 James H. Robinson 1953 - 1986 Joseph N. Matthews 1954 - 1972 Haywood Luck 1954 - 1956 Lewis H. Dickson 1957 - • Joe D. Burns 1957 - 1982 Raymond E. Cobble 1961 - 1965 WIiiiam H. Walker 1965 - 1970 Dorsey M. Gossett 1966 - 1974 Donald D. Howard 1968 - 1987 George J. Buntley 1972 - 1972 Robert D. Freeland 1972 - 1975 John C. Clark 1972 - • Alvin D. Rutledge 1972 - • Elmer L. Ashburn 1973 - • Wayne T. Flinchum 1973 - * Paulus P. Shelby 1973 - 1980 David W. Lockwood 1975 - • John R. Jared 1975 - • Richard J. Winston ** 1977 - • David W. Sams 1982 - • David W. Lockwood 1985 - • Donald J. Fowlkes 1985 - • David W. Monks 1985 - • Kenneth Johnson 1988 - • Paul Denton Poultry

1918 - 1919 R. N. Crane 1920 - 1920 Florence Forbes 1920 - 1925 Kate M. Wells 1925 - 1927 A. S. Chapin 1926 - 1927 Berley Winton 1927 - 1961 A. J. Chadwell 1927 - 1934 J. C. Snow 1946 - 1978 W. 0. Sewell 1962 - 1965 James B. Ward 1966 - 1969 Carroll C. Douglas 1971 - * Hugh Charles Goan 1971 - 1977 Robert L. Tugwell 1977 - 1979 Joseph M. Mauldin 1980 - 1986 Robert W. Bastien

Rehabilitation

1935 - 1938 L. H. Halton 1935 - 1938 Sue Taylor 1935 - 1936 E. C. McReynolds

Relocation/Readjustment

1935 - 1944 Patrick W. Kerr 1935 - 1936 Annie Eblen 1938 - 1945 E. C. McReynolds 1938 - 1945 Annie W. Eblen 1940 - 1941 Anna Frances Bowen 1940 - 1940 J. H. Dilworth 1940 - 1940 D. M. Thorpe 1940 - 1940 E. E. Shouse

Resource Development

1958 - 1963 M. D. Cunningham 1961 - 1963 Alex McNeil 1961 - 1969 Joe W. Brimm 1961 - 1972 L. J. Strickland 1963 - 1965 Gene Turner 1963 - 1967 Robert D. Freeland 1965 - 1971 Ralph McDade 1965 - 1966 D. Ray Humbard 1971 - 1972 Alvin D. Rutledge 1972 - 1973 Thomas R. Langford 1972 - 1980 Gist M. Welling 1972 - * David C. Gandy ** 1972 - * Joseph W. Morris ** 1973 - 1975 John R. Jared Resource Development (Continued)

1973 - 1975 Clyde Bond ** 1973 - 1975 Herman Franklin ** lv73 - 1977 James M. Lemons ** 1973 - * R. Gordon Holleman, Jr. 1974 - * George F. Smith

Rural Defense 1963 - 1965 Jesse E. Francis 1965 - 1967 Eugene Bryan 1967 - 1968 G. Fletcher Luck

Rural Electrification 1938 - 1947 M. M. Johns 1938 - 1941 Reuben B. Hicks 1939 - 1946 W. J. R. Browder 1939 - 1943 J. C. Hundley 1740 - 1941 Reu R. Choate 1942 - 1943 J. J. Crane 1946 - 1951 J. C. Hundley 1947 - 1949 J. J. Crane 1947 - 1950 G. S. Hollingsworth 1950 - 1951 Edward B. Hale

Soil Conservation 1935 - 1939 Alex McNeil 1935 - 1939 N. B. Morgan 1935 - 1939 P. W. Worden 1935 - 1939 Frank M. De Friese 1936 - 1937 F. H. McLeod 1950 - 1950 G. S. Hollingsworth 1951 - 1952 James H. Robinson

State Farm Demonstration Work 1935 - 1936 H. S. Nichols 1936 - 1954 G. C. Wright Test Demonstration Work 1946 - 1947 Frank M. DeFriese 1946 - 1946 Annie Eblen 1946 - 1948 N. B. Morgan 1946 - 1961 Alex McNeil 1946 - 1947 L. J. Strickland 1946 - 1959 P. W. Worden 1946 - 1951 D. Mallory Thorpe 1952 - 1961 L. J. Strickland

Veterinary Science 1973 - * Ralph F. Hall 1978 - 1981 Robert D. Linnabary 1985 -. * Hugh s. Mccampbell

Area Specialists Horticulture 1986 - * Cindy R. Weaver 1986 - * Hubert P. Conlon 1986 - * Mark Halcomb

Farm Management 1986 - * Kevin W. Ferguson 1986 - 1988 Scott Whiteside 1986 - * Alan Barry Galloway 1986 - 1988 Carleton S. Davis 1986 - * John C. Campbell 1986 - * David R. Perrin 1986 - * Joseph E. Winsett 1986 - * Jimmy C. Castellaw 1986 - * C. Dallas Manning 1986 - * James H. Looft 1986 - * Samuel C. Danehower 1987 - 1987 Steven F. Bledsoe 1988 - * Mary Katherine Hawk Loewen 1988 - * Danny R. Pippin HOME ECONOMICS SPECIALISTS

Arts & Crafts

1951 - 1952 Wilbur Armistead 1951 - 1952 Ronald Slayton 1958 - 1959 Emma Jean Kirk 1959 - 1970 Margaret L. Clem 1969 - 1983 Phyllis Jean Inman

Clothing 1924 - 1950 Lillian Keller 1950 - 1951 Quinelle McRae 1952 - 1952 Mary Jane Bell 1952 - 1953 Lenore V. Gabbard 1953 - 1955 Mary Jane Bell 1956 - 1959 Virginia F. Boswell 1959 - • Helen L. Rader 1961 - 1980 Geneva D. Potter 1972 - 1980 Mary Louise Ritter Beasley • • 1981 - • Alma C. Hobbs .. 1984 - • Bridget Smith

Consumer Education/Marketing 1955 - 1957 Eleanor Birdsong 1955 - 1957 Juanita Fasola 1955 - 1957 Viola S. McCain

Expanded Food & Nutrition

1970 - 1972 Marion Mariner 1973 - 1986 Etta Mae Westbrook 1978 - • Ester Hatcher 1989 - • Janie L. Ezell

Family Life

1973 - • Marion Mariner l }86 - • Anna Mae Kobbe 1984 - • Delores V. Pillow .. Food/Health/Nutrition

1918 - 1935 Leno A Worner 1924 - 1954 Maude Guthrie 1935 - 1946 Leno A Worner 1942 - 1944 Horry Carlton 1943 - 1946 Mildred Kemmer 1953 - 1961 Mory Sue Mayo Robinson 1956 - 1958 Corrine M. Cherry 1960 - 1960 Charmaine Robinson 1963 - 1974 Nozzo Noble 1964 - * Reba Coulter Hendren 1972 - 1978 Augustine S. Dortis .. 1972 - 1987 Ozie Adams .. 1975 - 1978 Kaylo 8. Carruth 1979 - 1980 Melissa Grove Knox 1983 - 1988 Mory Ann Houbenrich 1984 - 1987 Carol Beck .. 1988 - * Gail W. Disney 1987 - • Betty P. Greer ..

Home Economics (All Areas)

1918 - 1919 Geneva Conway 1919 - 1924 Maude Guthrie 1923 - 1924 Lillian Keller

Home Management & Family Economics

1924 - 1935 Lillian Keller 1935 - 1940 Elizabeth Speer 1943 - 1953 Inez Lovelace 1953 - 1958 Elizabeth O' Kelley 1959 - 1986 Laverne Former 1986 - • Etta Moe Westbrook

Housing/Interior Design/Equipment

1950 - 1952 Lillian Keller 1953 - 1968 Inez Lovelace 1957 - 1958 Emma Jeon Kirk 1959 - 1970 Margaret L. Clem 1971 - 1979 Madge Guffey 1979 - 1979 Barbaro 0. Nieri 1979 - 1980 Suzanne Long 1979 - • Martha H' Keel 1979 - • Maxine McMonus SECRETARIAL, CLERICAL AND SUPPORTIVE STAFF

Across the state and across the 75-year span of time that marks the anniversary of the Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, vast numbers of loyal and caring secretaries, clerical workers and other supportive staff have played a vital role in the history of the organization. Unfortunately, no adequate records are available to establish the service of these important individuals. Although they must remain nameless, their contribution to the vitality, public image, accountability, public service and assistance to the professional staff is immeasurable. The organization simply could not have existed without their talent, expertise and dedication. It is with a great deal of gratitude and appreciation that we pay tribute to this elite group of Extension employees.

COUNTY EXTENSION AGENTS

Since the establishment of the Extension Service in 1914, the county Extension agents working in agriculture, home economics, community resource development and 4-H Club work have been the backbone of this unique educational system. From the days of the horse and buggy to the present era of space exploration and technological explosion, they have developed and delivered timely educational programs, offered advice and practical information, given counsel and encouragement, and extended the hand of friendship to the rural and urban families of Tennessee. Area agents working in Test Demonstration Resource Management, Pest Management and Community Resource Development have been important contributors to the educational programs in many counties. If area agents names are omitted from some counties, the omission is not intentional. Agents are listed according to major subject matter area without differentiating between adult or youth program responsibility. The Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service is proud to present this roster of Extension agents who have given unselfishly of their time and talents for the betterment of farm and family life. They are examples of "professionalism personified.·

ANDERSON

Nuclear energy has played a major role in the development of the county. The Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge are famous for the development of the radioactive heart of the atomic bomb. The county was named for Joseph Anderson, one of the three Federal judges in the Territory South of the from 179 l - 1796.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1917 AS. Adsmond 1917 - 1918 W. F. Weir 1921 - 1936 Ira T. Elrod 1935 - 1935 S. 0. Naves 1935 - 1949 N. E. Hixson 1937 - 1953 F. G. Vickers 1942 - 1943 C. H. Balch 1949 - 1978 Emerson F. Ivens 1954 - 1955 J. Hughes Barnes 1954 - 1955 Joe W. Brimm 1955 - 1960 James G. O'Neal 1960 - 1968 Hubert E. Lambert 1968 - 1973 Luther Whitaker 1973 - " Joseph E. Hall 1978 - 1979 Donald K. Matthews 1979 - 1980 Stephen R. Sims 1982 - " Jeffery Lynn Leach

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1918 Ella Johnson 1918 - 1918 Ruth F. Kennedy 1918 - 1918 Mayme Wallace 1922 - 1925 Leah L. Parker 1926 - 1930 Naomi Bennett 1930 - 1931 Thelma Zumstein 1931 - 1940 Ruby McKee! Rives 1940 - 1947 Elizabeth Hill DeYoung 1940 - 1940 Opal Dean Parris White 1948 - 1952 Amy W. Brandon Sherrill 1952 - 1953 Cornelia S. Cate 1953 - 1954 Amy W. Brandon Sherrill 1954 - 1972 Angie K. Fugate 1957 - 1965 Hobbs Irwin 1958 - 1958 Marifloyd Hamil ANDERSON (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1963 - 1964 Lola Ann Moore 1965 - 1970 Glenda Howell Jellicorse 1970 - * Marjorie W. Phillips 1972 - 1<>74 Judith Ann Kirkpatrick 1974 - 1977 Martha Jo Talley 1978 - 1985 Joyce E. Brickey 1988 - * Gail B. King BEDFORD l�I Named in memory of Thomas Bedford, a Revolutionary soldier, Bedford County is known as the birthplace and center of the Walking Horse industry. The breeding, training and showing of Tennessee Walking Horses at nearly 100sta bles contribute more than $219 million annually to the county economy.

Agricultural Agents 19 17 - 1918 C. M. Franklin 19 17 - 1917 J. 0. Tackett 19 18 - 1919 J. R. Hickma 1920 - 1924 W. L. Fowler 1930 - 1934 A. C. Needham 1934 - 1940 C. P. Barrett 1935 - 1939 J. B. Conger 1940 - 1942 Joe Wiley Sloan 1941 - 1946 Franklin Yates 1942 - 1946 Theron A. Bracey 1945 - 1951 Curtis D. Smallin 1946 - 1948 James D. Taylor 1946 - 1955 Sam B. Stanfill 1951 - 1952 H. D. Garrison, Jr. 1952 - 1967 Curtis D. Smallin 1955 - 1981 Adrian G. Fox 1967 - 1968 Morris D. Graham 1968 - * David H. Gordon 1978 - 1982 Robert G. Ary, Jr. 1983 - 1985 John Haralson 1985 - • John K. Teague, Jr. 1988 - * Michael L. Swift

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1921 Nannie Baggette 1920 - 1921 Mattie L. Barr 1922 - 1923 Susie Brown 1922 - 1922 Carrie M. Watkins 1923 - 1925 Virginia Branham 1923 - 1926 Hattie Ross 1926 - 1929 Mabel 0. Myers 1937 - 1938 Jean Treanor 1943 - 1944 Mary Frances Lee 1944 - 1948 Sarah E. Young 1945 - 1946 Marye A. Hall BEDFORD (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1949 - 1950 Delaine Pierce Patton 1950 - 1953 Virginia Lee Myers Walkup 1953 - 1955 Jeanne G. Webb 1955 - 1961 Juanita Dowdy Patterson 1961 - 1962 Barbara Ann White 1962 - 1966 Barbara L. Jones Morgan 1965 - 1970 Sue Lee Harris 1966 - 1973 lvola Dement 1970 - 1979 Martha A Wright Lee 1973 - * Juanita D. Patterson 1979 - 1984 Carol Sue Henry 1984 - * Loretta A Sporn BENTON

Benton County celebrated its sesquicentennial in 1986. It ranks as the fifth most popular retirement county in the United States. "Pilot Knob," in popular Nathan Bedford Forest Historical Park, is the highest point in West Tennessee with an elevation of 665 feet above sea level. Camden is the county seat.

Agricultural Agents

1917 - 1918 W. G. Wilson 1919 - 1919 J. E. Gray 1927 - 1932 J. E. Thomason 1933 - 1939 B. T. Scruggs 1935 - 1941 J. D. Lewis, Jr. 1939 - 1941 Ralph E. McKnight 1939 - 1942 J. R. Barrett 1940 - 1946 H. D. Gordan 1941 - 1944 W. B. Wilson 1941 - 1943 James W. Vaughn 1943 - 1952 G. A. McPeake 1947 - 1947 W. I. Butler 1947 - 1947 James W. Vaughn 1949 - 1982 Glendel W. Oxford 1950 - 1951 Thomas M. Moore 1952 - 1977 Walter S. Moore 1977 - * Jimmy J. Lumpkin 1983 - * Floyd Wesley Primrose

Home Economics Agents

1912 - 1914 Mabel W. Hardin 1915 - 1915 Myrtie Hardin 1917 - 1918 Delia T. Robertson 1917 - N/A Mrs. M. E. Garrett 1930 - 1930 Lula Tunison 1939 - 1940 Mamie Milan 1941 - 1944 Martha C. Permenter 1942 - 1943 Bennie L. James 1943 - 1947 Louise Odom 1948 - 1955 Sarah D. Pegram 1955 - 1978 Wileva L. Mullins 1979 - 1983 Deborah Ann Henry 1983 - * Melissa J. Jones

BLEDSOE l�I The highest waterfall east of the Rockies is located in Fall Creek Falls State Park in Bledsoe County. The county was named in honor of Anthony Bledsoe, a Colonial Army captain from Virginia, a major in the Revolutionary Army and a colonel of the Tennessee Militia. Pikeville is the county seat.

Agricultural Agents 1918 - 1918 N. I. Hancock 1918 - 1919 R. W. Kemmer 1925 - 1927 J. P. Ricketts 1928 - 1933 W. T. Pritchett 1933 - 1939 E. H. Swingle 1935 - 1943 Eugene Gambill 1939 - 1941 B. T. Strawn 1941 - 1943 M. G. Humbard 1943 - 1944 R. S. Burns 1943 - 1943 Earl L. Tipps 1944 - 1949 Robert C. Smith 1944 - 1946 Ralph W. Walker 1946 - 1954 R. S. Burns 1946 - 1947 B. F. Shelton 1949 - 1951 Ben P. Fletcher 1954 - 1985 Merrill D. Austin 1955 - 1964 Gerald V. Eagan, Jr. 1964 - 1965 Lawrence L. Swafford 1965 - 1967 Jimmy G. Sevier 1967 - 1984 Joe F. Nichols 1985 - * Thomas Bruce Steelman

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Kitty McDonald 1917 - 1920 Virginia Branham 1930 - 1931 Blanche Miller 1935 - 1940 Dinwiddie 1940 - 1942 Alice Bates Walker 1942 - 1943 Ruth Goddard Proffit 1943 - 1948 Margaret Bacon Hale 1948 - 1949 Ruby L. Hatfield Taylor 1949 - 1951 Charlesie Gentry Crouch 1951 - 1954 Elizabeth Rowland Kirschner 1954 - 1960 Mary Frances Hamilton 1956 - 1956 Dorothy A Cockerham BLEDSOE (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1956 - 1958 Ruth Avaline Ellis Cass 1958 - 1961 Doris Jean Roberts DeBord 1960 - 1961 Patsy E. Jones 1961 - 1962 Freida Gay White 1962 - 1962 Ida Lou B. Stephens 1962 - 1963 Martha Sue Forkner 1963 - 1965 Anita June Story Eaton 1963 - 1966 Helen Virginia Walker Jared 1965 - * Brenda Parham Kucharski 1967 - 1970 Carolyn S. Dodson Bailey 1970 - 1974 Nancy J. Lively Crockett 1970 - 1970 Helen F. Matthews 1974 - 1975 Cynthia A. Freeland 1975 - 1976 Jane Ann Bradley 1977 - 1979 Martha Graves Quay 1979 - 1983 Lynn V. Jones Woodward 1984 - * Lisa G. Garrett 1988 - * Sara L. Williams Steelman BLOUNT l�I Named in honor of . the county is one of the oldest counties in the state. It is the home of UT President, Lamar Alexander. and much of the land is a part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Aluminum Company of America employs nearly 3,900 residents. The county seat is Maryville.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 L. P. Goddard 1918 - 1919 L. H. Dooley 1919 - 1921 S. G. Abernathy 1929 - 1937 F. G. Vickers 1935 - 1938 John A. Odom 1937 - 1951 I. T. Elrod 1938 - 1950 W. B. Kyker 1947 - 1952 Gilbert N. Rhodes 1951 - 1959 Clyde N. Taylor 1952 - 1973 Charles H. Edwards 1959 - 1987 Edward P. Deere 1973 - 1976 Harry D. Bryan 1976 - 1978 Michael J. Turner 1978 - • Ralph A. Lovely 1979 - 1981 John M. Zinn 1989 - • James Luther McMillan Jr.

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1915 Nancy Lee Broady 1915 - 19 16 Ito Broady 1917 - 1919 Olivia Brown Henry 1917 - 1917 Nelle Howard Lamon 1920 - 1921 Mary Deaderick 1922 - 1923 Lucy Edmondson 1935 - 1939 Lois M. Johnson Sharpe 1939 - 1940 Dorris Bolerjack Holloway 1941 - 1943 Mary Lillian Martin Beatty 1943 - 1945 Kathryn Shelby 1946 - 1949 Betty Jane Daniels 1949 - 1950 Sara Frances Spencer Dunbar 1950 - 1955 Mary Ellen Agee 1955 - 1955 Miriam J. Thomas 1955 - 195 7 Louise G. Davidson 1956 - 1959 Sara Spencer Dunbar 1957 - 1959 Mary Jo G. Larsen BLOUNT (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1959 - 1968 Carol Jean Trotter Kincheloe 1959 - 1962 Jean C. McCall 1962 - • Ethel J. Neas Duff 1968 - • Ruby Nell Jeter BRADLEY l�I Bradley County is best known as an industrial area. producing more kitchen ranges than any other place in the world. Agricultural income exceeds $25 million annually. The famous Indian "" is commemorated at Red Clay Historical Park near Cleveland, the county seat.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1917 William J. Sanford 1917 - 1918 G. L. Harris 1918 - 1920 James B. McKenzie 1919 - 1939 Elton E. Shouse 1928 - 1933 Edward H. Swingle 1935 - 1935 J. w. Cate 1935 - 1965 William W. Smith 1939 - 1952 Edward H. Swingle 1940 - 1942 Elton E. Shouse 1943 - 1945 Curtis Smallin 1945 - 1945 Arlie E. Clabo 1946 - 1979 William M. Hale 1953 - 1955 A. C. Carmen 1953 - 1960 Walter K. Bartlett 1955 - 1982 John R. Paysinger 1956 - 1961 Earl R. Cady 1966 - 1969 Robert L. Sliger 1971 - 1978 Herbert L. Williams 1979 - 1980 J. C. West 1979 - 1981 John M. Zinn 1980 - 1983 John J. Goddard 1983 - * Kim David Frady 1984 - 1986 Douglas M. Clement 1988 - * Larry J. Mitchell

Home Economics Agents 191 1 - 1917 Melissa Byrd 1917 - 1918 Jane V. Rice 1918 - 1918 Irma Cooper 1919 - 1919 Vivian Gilmore 1919 - 1931 Melissa Byrd 1929 - 1929 Laura Swingle 1930 - 1930 Hazel Gwin 1931 - 1970 Margaret L. Weeks 1933 - 1935 Dorthea Smith BRADLEY (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1945 - 1947 Vivian Jordan Hannah 1947 - 1953 Henrietta Crawford Roach 1953 - 1957 Billie Dean Reed Bacon 1957 - 1959 Elise Hooper Woodard 1959 - 1963 Nancy E. Joyce Owens 1960 - 1960 Alma Kidd Johnson 1963 - 1972 Maxine Byerly Moore 1970 - * Judith J. Smith 1972 - * Norma Kaye Morrisette Smith CAMPBELL

The county seat of Jacksboro is located on the edge of , a haven for Canadian geese each winter. A truly scenic part of mountainous East Tennessee, the county enjoys an abundance of lakes and recreation facilities. Coal mining is the primary industry of the area.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1919 James L. Robison 1922 - 1923 J. A Hunter 1923 - 1926 W. R. Rooson 1927 - 1929 W. K. Tipton 1929 - 1932 Fred McFee 1932 - 1938 P. W. Moore 1935 - 1940 C. C. Brooks 1935 - 1939 W. C. Butcher 1938 - 1940 John J. Parks 1939 - 1972 J. Horace Brown 1940 - 1948 F. 0. Clark 1940 - 1943 Reginald Jellicorse 1943 - 1944 Delmas D. Hinds 1946 - 1947 Milburn E. Jones 1949 - 1964 Joe Woods 1955 - 1957 Scott H. Bird 1957 - 1984 Kenneth G. Keyes 1964 - 1969 Layton L. Humberd 1970 - 1970 Roger D. Philpott 1970 - 1975 Charles W. Morgan 1976 - 1978 Ronald L. Inman 1978 - 1984 Scott T. Ellis 1985 - 1987 Daniel Dunlop 1987 - • Barry B. Cooper

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1915 Mae Lois Treadwell 1915 - 1916 Margueritte Robinson 19 17 - 1918 Pearl Morris 1917 - 1917 Faith Cross 1935 - 1936 Correnia Buck 1941 - 1943 Dorothy R. Campbell 1943 - 1946 Ruth E. Crabtree 1946 - 1949 Marion E. Branum 1949 - 1961 Geneva D. Potter CAMPBELL (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1952 - 1958 Mary L. Campbell Reynolds 1958 - 1962 Marifloyd Hamil 1962 - 1964 Lura Wheeler Shettle 1962 - 1965 Alice J. Black Worley 1964 - 1967 Rebecca L. Litz 1966 - 1970 Gwendolyn Grant Byars 1967 - 1969 Shirlene N. Booker 1969 - 1971 Mary Jane Smith Henry 1970 - * Wanda L. Rust 1970 - 1975 Virginia C. Cobb 1972 - 1983 Rebecca Hamilton Osborne 1975 - 1981 Sue Gibson Schlosshan 1981 - 1988 Judy P. Groce 1985 - * Debra Kay Bacon 1988 - * Nelsie H. Wooden CANNON ,�, Founded in 1836 with Woodbury as the county seat, Cannon County is famous for the abundance of white oak trees. Handmade white oak baskets are considered a collector's item and often sell for several hundred dollars. Short Mountain is the highest point in the state west of the Cumberland range.

Agricultural Agents

1918 - 1919 H. T. Andrews 1930 - 1933 C. W. Robison 1934 - 1939 Otis R. Holley 1939 - 1944 John S. McMahon 1944 - 1945 Joe P. Little 1945 - 1949 Baxter Safley 1949 - 1952 Reed Hooper 1952 - 1961 Roy M. Luna 1957 - * Clayton F. Glenn 1961 - 1965 William E. Bryan 1965 - 1972 William A Warren 1972 - 1975 Frank E. Smith 1975 - 1979 Noble S. Kearney 1979 - * Johnny U. Basinger 1986 - 1989 Clyde Webster

Home Economics Agents

1918 - 1918 Cornelia Loughry 1918 - 1919 Mary E. Doney 1938 - 1939 Jean Treanor 1939 - 1940 Emma Lou Cox 1940 - 1941 Jennie Mae Mitchell 1941 - 1943 Mary Neal Alexander 1943 - 1950 Kathleen Rauscher 1950 - 1956 Elizabeth Proffit Bell 1957 - 1962 Margie S. Jowers McFerrin 1962 - 1964 Margaret H. Reagan Hawks 1964 - 1967 Carlene E. Etter Tenpenny 1967 - 1969 Faye G. Bickford 1970 - 1987 Rebecca A Murray 1987 - 1988 Myra L. Cowell 1988 - * Aneta Jo Dodd

CARROLL

The County was founded in 1821 and named in honor of Governor William Carroll. Huntingdon is the county seat. A large hollow meteorite crater at "Hollow Rock" is said to have been the hiding place of Indians in search of safety from animals and the "white man." The second oldest living pecan tree in the United States is located in Carroll County.

Agricultural Agents

1916 - 1916 C. H. Denson 1916 - 1917 T. L. Robison 1917 - 1919 C. H. Moody 1924 - 1938 Earle F. B. Sargent 1935 - 1935 S. B. Puckette 1935 - 1941 A. R. Brann 1938 - 1939 W. M. Howat 1939 - 1943 G. C. Richardson 1941 - 1949 J. D. Lewis, Jr. 1944 - 1945 James E. Gee 1944 - 1946 Edgar Lee Burnett 1945 - 1947 James E. Tice 1946 - 1949 Marvin W. Belew 1946 - 1946 Marvin Clifton 1947 - 1948 Eugene Presson 1948 - 1950 R. D. Blankenship 1948 - 1948 Thomas 0. Walker 1949 - 1949 Tommy Lynn 1949 - 1951 John Q. Bradley 1949 - 1950 James R. Nichols 1950 - 1956 Ben T. Cockrill 1951 - 1982 Robert G. Powell 1955 - • Billy B. Keeton 1988 - • Timothy P. Campbell

Home Economics Agents

1916 - 1918 Vivian Hawkins 1919 - 1919 Mrs. Mamie Rogan 1929 - 1930 Gladys Andrews 1930 - 1932 Louise Snell 1935 - 1937 Montez Wilkerson 1941 - 1944 Mayme Hart 1944 - 1945 Ruthelia A. Ferrell 1945 - 1957 Mary J. Gillespie Larsen CARROLL (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1945 - 1952 Alice Worley Oxford 1947 - 1979 Byrda M. Pratt Bennett 1952 - 1953 Marion Ellis 1953 - 1954 Marjorie Beth Austin 1954 - 1956 Betty J. Higdon Butler 1958 - 1958 Joyce Ward Hastings 1964 - 1968 Carlene A Tullos Kelley 1968 - 1973 Roseanne Kuykendall Spain 1970 - * Janet S. Alexander 1973 - 1982 Janet M. Pierce 1979 - * Jane B. Wade 1983 - 1985 Deborah Doster CARTER l�I Carter County has one of the few remaining covered bridges in this area of the country. Designed by Colonel Thomas Matson and built in 1883 at a cost of less then $6,000, it is used to carry traffic across the Doe River. The county name is in honor of Landon Carter, son of an important early pioneer. The county seat, Elizabethton, was named afterCart er's wife, Elizabeth.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1916 E. F. Arnold 1917 - 1919 J. K. Sharp, Jr. 1930 - 1951 C. M. Franklin 1935 - 1944 John A Ewing 1942 - 1943 Edward Garland 1942 - 1944 Bob L. Gilley 1946 - 1975 Claude Norris 1946 - 1949 Claude Prince 1949 - 1951 Marvin E. Farris 1952 - 1955 Charles F. McCall 1956 - 1968 Leroy Hight 1968 - 1973 James E. Jones, Jr. 1968 - 1968 David D. Whitaker 1973 - 1976 Richard 0. Smith 1975 - * William Keith Hart, Jr. 1976 - 1985 Thomas L. Peters 1985 - 1987 Darrell E. Hale

Home Economics Agents 1916 - 1917 Julia Reagan 1917 - 1918 Donna D. Slaughter 1945 - 1949 Alma Moore 1946 - 1948 Juanita H. Fasola 1949 - 1951 Mary Louise Smith 1951 - 1953 Jean Delozier 1953 - 1953 Mary Louise Smith Hacker 1954 - 1959 Margaret Clem Campbell 1955 - 1955 Lois Irene Hicks Glass 1956 - 1959 Becky Poteat Sims 1960 - 1967 Eleanor E. Eastes Andrews 1960 - 1983 Susan R. Cardwell 1960 - 1960 Wanda Clark 1968 - 197 4 Shirley B. Whitson 1971 - 1973 Ann N. Weaver CARTER (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1973 - 1974 Eleanor Estes Andrews 1974 - 1980 Janet S. Sprouse 1974 - 1976 Kathy W. Wright 1976 - 1977 Mary Beth Thomas 1977 - 1985 Ann E. Barker Hale 1981 - * Camille M. Jessee 1983 - * Linda K. Bower 1985 - 1987 Janet B. Hale 1988 - * Elizabeth Ann Moody CHEATHAM l�I The "Narrows of Harpeth" is a neck of land several hundred yards long that is the beginning of the Harpeth River. The "narrows" reverses itself and descends 17 feet in a graceful loop around the limestone ridge. The county seat of Ashland was named for the trees which dominated the nearby forests. The name was changed to Ashland City in 1858.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1919 J. H. Evans 1921 - 1923 J. A Hunter 1923 - 1934 P. W. Worden 1934 - 1939 Harmon H. Jones 1940 - 1959 J. Ben Thomson 1957 - 1980 James G. McCall 1981 - 1988 Kenneth Warren Smith 1988 - • Victor Lee Ivy

Home Economics Agents 1917 - N/A Rachel Gray 1918 - 1918 Mabel L. Pentecost 1918 - 1918 Virginia LeNoir 1919 - 1919 Nellie Trice 1923 - 1923 Narcissa Sheilds 1923 - 1924 Naomi Bennett 1924 - N/A Hettie Ridings 1924 - 1925 Angie Fleeman 1934 - 1 938 Ray Cole 1938 - 1940 Odessa Duncan 1940 - 1941 Azilee Snell 1941 - 1943 Christine Waters 1943 - 1944 Virginia Kemmer 1945 - 1945 Shirley E. Walters 1945 - 1945 Elizabeth Hays 1945 - 1946 Rebecca Shoffner 1946 - 1948 Minnie Ruth Stephens DeFriese 1940 - 1950 Catherine Campbell 1950 - 1955 Winifred 1955 - 1957 Grace Walker Albright 1957 - 1974 Mary Elizabeth Y. Jean 1975 - • Marie Baddour Anglin CHEATHAM (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1985 - 1987 Amelia M. Haynes 1988 - • Helen Lyn Sealy CHESTER l�I Local folklore says that Chester County was good hunting ground for the Chickasaw Indians, and hundreds of arrowheads and chipped stones have been found in the area. Henderson, the county seat, was first called Dayton, but the name was changed to Henderson Station during the Civil War. Growing roses has become a popular interest in recent years and adds to the natural beauty of the county.

Agricultural Agents

191 1 - 1913 L. M. McCollum 1913 - 1916 J. T. Bishop 1916 - 1917 R. C. Riggan 1918 - 1918 J. E. Gray 1922 - 1924 R. W. Beck 1929 - 1934 M. D. Brock 1934 - 1939 Farmer Paschal 1935 - 1944 D. P. Headden 1939 - 1952 N. S. Martin 1944 - 1945 George P. Robertson 1946 - 1947 Joseph G. Crawford 1952 - 1978 Robert C. Darnell 1957 - * Charles Dean LeCornu 1978 - * Jerry T. Patterson 1980 - 1983 Gary S. Glass 1983 - 1986 Jimmy C. Castellaw

Home Economics Agents

1917 - 1917 Hettie Riding 1918 - 1918 Rachel M. Gray 1935 - 1937 Julia Snell 1937 - 1937 Montez Wilkerson 1944 - 1946 Gertrude Bond 1948 - 1949 Martha Abbott 1950 - 1957 Alice Jenkins 1957 - 1958 Carolyn Pritchard Rowland 1958 - 1958 Doris J. Roberts De Bord 1958 - 1962 Alice Jenkins Wilson 1962 - * Joan Swift 1971 - 1971 Shirley K. Hamilton

CLAIBORNE

The gateway to the land west of the Appalachians, Cumberland Gap was first discovered by Thomas Walker, later made famous by Daniel Boone. The rugged and beautiful county is named for Virginia aristocrat William Claiborne. Tazewell is the county seat. Lincoln Memorial University at Harrogate has the largest collection of historical Lincoln treasures in the United States.

Agricultural Agents 19 14 - 1915 C. M. Hume 19 17 - 1919 F. G. Vickers 1923 - 1923 C. M. Franklin 1934 - 1939 C. F. Arrants 1935 - 1947 C. W. Davis 1936 - 1942 Crosby Murray 1939 - 1941 J. Hugh Felts 1941 - 1942 Sam L. Hansard 1941 - 1948 R. F. Testerman 1942 - 1943 Thomas B. Carney 1942 - 1944 J. 0. Cunningham 1944 - 1946 Bob L. Gilley 1947 - 1955 Thomas B. Carney 1948 - 1949 Wm. E. Brookshire 1949 - 1953 Jesse Francis 1951 - 1951 Charles H. Edwards 1953 - 1954 J. H. Barnes 1955 - 1978 J. H. Barnes 1956 - 1958 Robert G. Massey 1958 - 1960 James R. Hight 1960 - 1967 Joe w. White 1968 - 1970 Michael W. Nelms 1970 - 1971 Frank C. Frye 1972 - 1972 Charles T. McBroom 1973 - 1973 Ronald 0. Bogle 1973 - 1983 Luther Whitaker 1974 - 1976 Charles Van Bryant 1974 - 1980 Roger Daryl Brooks 1977 - * George M. Heiskell 1978 - 1980 Larry Shelby 1981 - 1987 Kenneth H. Hestand 1983 - 1984 Mark L. Cook 1985 - 1987 Forrest F. Evans, Jr. 1988 - * Steve C. Edwards CLAIBORNE (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1916 - 1917 Elsie N. Dugger 1917 - 1918 Adelaide Bailey 1918 - 1918 Burtie Hughes 1918 - 1918 Malinda Chance 1919 - 1920 Pearl Morris 1928 - 1940 Lillie Oakley 1939 - 1941 Elgivo I Summers 1942 - 1942 Ello Moe Crosby 1943 - 1944 Nancy M. Graham 1944 - 1948 Ruby Lee Morris Hodges 1947 - 1959 Marlon B. Mariner 1949 - 1949 Sarah S. Christian 1949 - 1952 Dorothy Garvey 1950 - 1954 Margaret L. Clem 1950 - 1950 Lena S. Evans 1952 - 1954 Mary Elizabeth Bridges 1960 - 1962 Sara Jane Kerr Cloud 1962 - 1970 Alice Young Campbell 1970 - 1978 Sandra L. Taylor Singleton 1970 - 1972 Margaret M. Drinnon 1973 - 1974 Carolyn E. Walker Padfield 1974 - 1979 Nancy Lynn Blessing 1979 - * Connie L. Fugate CLAY l�I Known nationwide for its clean fishing waters, Dale Hollow Lake attracts 1.5 million visitors annually. The county was formed from parts of Jackson and Overton Counties and took its name from Henry Clay. The original courthouse was built in 1873 and is still in use today.

Agricultural Agents

1918 - 1920 Joe Eastes 1929 - 1930 E. B. Wright 1934 - 1969 Charles Vaughn 1942 - 1943 J. Newt Odom 1946 - 1947 George F. Luck 1947 - 1951 Frank C. Pharris 1952 - 1953 J. D. Beaty 1953 - 1985 Johnnie C. Beaty 1970 - 1975 Earl W. Law 1975 - 1976 Hugh D. Davenport 1976 - 1979 James B. Bell 1979 - 1980 Michael W. Tustian 1979 - 1985 Ronald H. Rogers 1979 - 1979 John R. Berrier 1981 - 1989 W. Clyde Webster 1985 - 1987 John W. Sparkman 1985 - .. Jerry R. Kimes 1988 - • Reyes Lee Rich

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1919 Mattie Dowling 1940 - 1941 Lillian Robinson Pearson 1941 - 1944 Mary Ruth Patton 1944 - 1946 Amanda A Deweese 1946 - 1947 Lois Lee White 1949 - 1950 Thelma L. Leeth 1951 - 1951 Agnes M. Jackson Butler 1952 - 1957 Maurene Q. Cassetty 1958 - 1959 R. Gaw Moore Spears 1959 - 1962 Patsy Anne Reynolds 1963 - 1968 Carolyn Sue Hamilton 1968 - .. Phyllis A Robinson Boyce 1971 - 1979 Linda D. Ballard

COCKE l�I Tomatoes are an important crop in Cocke County, bringing growers approximately $5 million annually. Over 400 producers and almost 900 acres are devoted to growing tomatoes for the fresh market. The Stokely brothers started a cannery in 1903. Cocke County was given its name from William Cocke, a native Virginian. He was an early politician in the area that was first , then the State of Franklin, then Tennessee. Founded in 1797, the county seat is Newport.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 P. C. Hambough 1927 - 1928 F. C. Walker 1930 - 1939 0. M. Watson 1935 - 1937 A E. Latham 1937 - 1938 Sam L. Hansard 1938 - 1943 Robert D. Kilpatrick 1939 - 1946 Wade Butcher 1942 - 1948 C. A Flowers 1943 - 1943 Wesley N. Williams 1946 - 1948 J. Merrill Bird 1948 - 1967 Hugh A Russell 1949 - 1986 Raymond Sutton 1967 - * William R. Stockdale 1979 - 1980 Cynthia G. Eayre 1980 - 1982 Mallena E. Cate Carmichal 1983 - * Sharon E. Rice 1987 - * Mark W. Perkins

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Nettie McClure 1918 - 1918 Ruth Clark 1918 - 1918 Grace Vinson 1935 - 1936 Thelma Jenkins 1936 - 1936 Correnia Buck 1938 - 1941 Edna M. Mowery 1941 - 1942 Irene Thomas 1943 - 1946 Cecelia Carson 1946 - 1946 Ella Mae Crosby 1947 - 1950 Ruth E. Tate 1952 - 1956 Roberta Mae Inman 1957 - 1987 Mary Louise Horton 1971 - 1972 Katherine W. Long COCKE (continued)

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1972 - 197 4 Robbie Jayne Jackson 1974 - • Brenda C. Shadden Johnson 1989 - • Anita K. Allen COFFEE

The UT Space Institute at Tullahoma and the Arnold Engineering Development Center are both a major source of employment in the county. Aerospace research and propulsion systems-test cells keep the USA in the forefront of space exploration. May Prairie, a 45 acre plot, is the largest remaining prairie in the Southeast.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1915 J. H. Evans 1916 - 1916 F. W. Fleming 1917 - 1917 J. T. Belue 1918 - 1918 H. J. Andrews 1918 - 1918 J. D. Kelly 1922 - 1926 M. S. Womack 1930 - 1955 W. J. Crowder 1935 - 1938 Paul M. Horton 1939 - 1942 B. E. Winn 1942 - 1944 Robert C. Smith 1944 - 1945 Luke Lee Smith 1945 - 1946 James L. Chance 1945 - 1948 John H. Glimer 1948 - 1949 Benjamin F. Shelton 1949 - 1951 Robert C. Smith 1949 - 1983 James L. Taylor 1955 - 1974 Oliver F. Cook 1974 - 1976 William F. Crafton 1977 - 1981 James W. Atwood 1976 - 1977 Timothy R. Murphy 1978 - 1981 Carlton Joe McKenzie 1981 - 1986 C. Dallas Manning 1984 - * S. Dean Northcutt 1988 - * Brandon M. Suiter

Home Economics Agents 1911 - 1916 Katherine Vaughn 1917 - 1918 Jennie L. Baker 1935 - 1936 Elizabeth Coppedge Lovell 1936 - 1937 Sara Grace Allen Horton 1937 - 1940 Leleah Moriarty Brown 1940 - 1942 Jeannette Hundley Helton 1942 - 1947 Angeline Rust Jared 1945 - 1945 Geraldine Hallmark 1947 - 1950 Louise Head Reynolds COFFEE (continued)

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1949 - 1952 Mary Elizabeth Frances Shelton 1950 - 1950 Nellie Jane Hutson 1950 - 1960 Sylvia Humbard Dillon 1952 - 1955 Sara Josephine Lee Overall 1956 - 1958 Martha Louise Byles Leonard 1958 - 1960 Peggie A Wilson McCulloch 1960 - 1986 Jeanne G. Webb 1961 - 1961 Mary Ellen Parks 1962 - 1965 Patricia Ann Sumner Davis 1965 - 1966 Phyllis Joy Quandt Gallagher 1966 - 1968 Carol F. Langford 1968 - 1969 Jan Elaine Berry 1970 - * Mary Jo Lee Brinkman 1970 - 1972 Sharon J. Robeson 1973 - 1989 Emily T. Welborn 1983 - 1987 Susan B. Sain 1987 - 1988 Lynn L. Johnson 1989 - * Patsy I. Harkey 1989 - * Carol A Douglass CROCKETT l�I The frontier symbols of coonskin cap and long rifle honor the county's namesake, Davy Crockett, famous for his courage and concern for his neighbors. Alamo is the county seat. The county is relatively new in Tennessee history, founded in 1871. It leads the state in yields per acre of cotton.

Agricultural Agents 1911 - 1911 A. R. Bridger 1911 - 1913 I. B. Colvitt 1913 - 1914 W. J. Hunt 1914 - 1915 Ebb Thomas 1917 - 1919 J. H. Agnew 1919 - 1919 L. C. McDaniel 1922 - 1925 H. T. Pollard 1928 - 1928 W. A. Haynes 1930 - 1932 F. D. Jeter 1932 - 1934 L. H. Haltom 1934 - 1937 H. T. Pollard 1937 - 1947 0. J. Nunn 1944 - 1947 James K. Davis 1946 - 1946 James W. Vaughn 1947 - 1953 A. N. Renshaw 1947 - 1986 Curtis D. Koonce 1947 - 1950 Robert W. Moore, Jr. 1947 - 1950 James M. Simmons 1950 - 1951 Glen s. Elkins 1950 - 1951 Holmes P. Paschall 1951 - 1988 Thomas M. Moore 1953 - 1954 Robert G. Anderson 1954 - 1983 Jesse Pipkin 1979 - 1980 Stephen J. Hutton 1984 - • Hayden E. Miles 1981 - 1982 Paul H. Ivy 1984 - • Andy Brasfield 1988 - • Phillip M. Smith

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Delia T. Robertson 1918 - 1919 Katie B. Conyers 1929 - 1930 Lula Tunison 1935 - 1941 Katherine Hopper 1941 - 1943 Katherine P. Brown CROCKETT (continued)

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1943 - 1946 Marilee Boden 1944 - 1945 Ruth Holmes 1946 - 1948 Eunice Wylie 1948 - 1949 Diana V. Thomas 1949 - 1950 Martha Dorris 1950 - 1952 Marcelle Wiseman Farrow 1952 - 1955 Mildred C. Perkins Avery 1955 - 1961 Alpha Ruth Hudson Worrell 1962 - 1963 Sandra Sue Beard 1963 - 1963 Minnie Frances Hatcher 1964 - 1964 Jeanette Sammons 1964 - 1965 Gladys V. Hixon 1966 - 1967 Marilyn K. Mann 1967 - 1970 Alice P. Fennel 1970 - 1973 Mary A. Lake 1973 - 1979 Alpha Ruth Worrell 1973 - * Lue W. Perry ** 1979 - * Marilyn W. Tritt CUMBERLAND l�I Cumberland County was one of l 02 national New Deal communities in the 1930s with government-sponsored housing projects providing employment during the Great Depression. Over 200 of the 256 stone homes, known as the "Cumberland Homesteads,· still stand in silent testimony to the perserverance of the independent homesteaders. The Duke of Cumberland was the inspiration for the county name. Wildlife management areas and resorts attract many visitors.

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1914 - 1915 Frank S. Chance 1917 - 1919 W. G. Adsmond 1923 - 1924 J. E. Carson 1925 - 1925 H. K. Foster 1927 - 1937 Robert L. Lyons 1935 - 1936 A. A. Johnson 1936 - 1938 F. 0. Clark 1937 - 1939 H. E. Swack 1938 - 1945 John A. Odom 1939 - 1940 A. A. Johnson 1940 - 1942 Thomas B. Carney 1942 - 1944 C. C. Simonton 1944 - 1945 Owen G. Taylor 1945 - 1948 C. E. Looney 1946 - 1947 Homer D. Swingle 1946 - 1946 C. C. Simonton 1946 - 1948 J. Horace Brown 1946 - 1947 J. J. Bird 1947 - 1972 Dennis V. Patton 1949 - 1956 Max S. Fones 1949 - 1950 James O. Johnson 1949 - 1949 Henry J. Stamps 1954 - 1957 Charles W. Davis 1956 - 1959 Marlin S. Haston 1959 - 1960 Thomas Edward Young 1960 - 1961 James W. Turner 1962 - 1974 Rodney H. Smith 1972 - 1977 Willard L. Upchurch 1974 - 1980 Alfred Dean Headrick 1977 - * G. Roger Thackston, Jr. 1978 - 1981 David Leslie Buhaley 1981 - 1986 Alfred Dean Headrick 1988 - * Donald W. Riley CUMBERLAND (continued)

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1917 - N/A Massie Overton 1917 - 1919 Emelia Cope 1917 - N/A Mrs. E. B. Albertson 1928 - 1930 Wilma Schubert 1930 - 1932 Marie C. Erwin 1936 - 1942 Bennie Laura Jones 1942 - 1942 Juanita D. Holt 1943 - 1944 Juanita D. Holt 1944 - 1945 Juanita Ross 1945 - 1951 Alta F. Thomas 1945 - 1946 Juanita Holt Fasola 1949 - 1951 Elise J. Holmes 1949 - 1949 Hazel Smithson 1951 - 1967 Maude Elrod Keisling 1951 - 1953 Emily Ruth Shofner 1953 - 1955 Nelle Brock 1956 - 1956 Wanda S. Starnes 1957 - 1959 Anita Turner 1957 - 1957 Sarah Mai Inglis 1959 - 1960 Alice B. Smith 1960 - 1963 Nancy J. Basinger Wanders 1963 - 1966 Katie Mae Varnell 1966 - 1969 Sandra J. Lynn 1967 - 1970 Berniece Wilson Atkinson 1969 - 1972 Shirley J. Benson 1971 - • Berniece Wilson Atkinson 1973 - 1979 Margaret Smith Wilson 1979 - 1982 Patricia R. Wilkinson 1983 - • Mary D. Judd DAVIDSON

Upon selection of Nashville as the permanent capital of the state in 1843, Nashville purchased the site known as Campbell's Hill for $30,000 and donated it to the state for the Capitol building site. William Strickland, an assistant architect of the national Capitol in Washington, was selected to build the State Capitol building from marble quarried in the Tennessee hills. Labor was done by convicts and slaves for occupation in 1853. Davidson County is home to the country music industry, the Parthenon and the Hermitage.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1923 Ebb Thomas 1917 - 1950 G. W. Senter 1920 - 1941 0. L. Farris 1923 - 1945 Glenn G. Summers 1941 - 1942 Woodrow Luttrell 1942 - 1945 Jesse Safley 1945 - 1959 0. L. Farris 1945 - 1946 Floyd A Detchon 1946 - 1961 Owen E. Hodges 1946 - 1947 Lynn Copeland 1950 - 1982 Arthur D. Brown 1957 - 1959 Fred Hewitte Tucker 1957 - 1987 Louise Barker 1959 - 1982 Felix E. Knight 1961 - 1964 Earl C. Anderson 1964 - 1968 Charles A Lewter 1969 - 1972 John A Allen 1970 - 1984 Garth G. Alexander 1972 - 1973 Ralph R. Upton 1973 - 1979 John A Allen 1974 - 1977 Robert D. Hillman ** 1980 - 1985 Michael E. Smith 1982 - * Stephen H. Lester 1984 - * James D. Johnson 1988 - 1989 Elizabeth C. Hildreth

Home Economics Agents 1914 - 1914 Myra Tandy 1917 - 1919 Mary B. McGowan 1917 - 1918 Marion Oney 1917 - 1920 Flora Shelby DAVIDSON (continued)

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1918 - 1918 Anne Warwick 1919 - 1919 Bessie Partee 1920 - 1922 Sophie Mae Shadow 1923 - 1929 Jacqueline Hall 1927 - 1928 Sylvesta Brown 1929 - 1935 Barna Finger 1929 - 1930 Willa B. Boyd 1929 - 1929 Corinne Hays 1930 - N/A Kate Gresham 1935 - 1946 Alma Nixon Gordon 1937 - 1962 Kate Gresham 1938 - 1941 Robbie Hart Flynn 1941 - 1941 Mary Neal Alexander 1941 - 1943 Alice Cox Beeler 1943 - 1943 Virginia Kemmer 1944 - 1947 Dean Simmons 1945 - 1945 Billie Dona Dowling 1946 - 1950 Loraine Wilson 1947 - 1947 Dorothy Lee Nanney 1947 - 1950 Katherine Simpson 1950 - 1965 Ruby McKeel Rives 1950 - 1953 Nancye Ann Holman 1953 - 1958 Margaret Pollard 1959 - 1959 Nancy Burr Hinton 1960 - 1961 Elizabeth A Kleishman Edgmon 1962 - 1963 Vera F. Patrick Merritt 1962 - 1963 Margaret Pollard 1962 - 1962 Nancye Holman Shannon 1963 - 1983 Corrie T. Johnson 1964 - 1969 Nita E. Whitfield 1966 - 1973 Martha K. Radford 1969 - • Shirley F. Miller 1969 - 1971 Marva Williams 1970 - 1974 Judy H. Fentress 1973 - • lvola Dement 1974 - 1979 Alma C. Hobbs 1974 - 1977 Leta Charmaine Jamieson .. 1977 - • Cherry Lane B. VonSchmittou 1978 - • Janice A Hayslett .. 1981 - • Mary B. Wakefield .. 1984 - • Mildred T. Smith DECATUR l�I The extensive deposits of limestone in the area have created the natural wonder of many caves, for which the county is well known. The abundant natural deposits of phosphate, chert, limestone, river sand and gravel provide a prosperous mining income for many residents. The county seat is Decaturville.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1918 W. L. Flanery 1918 - 1919 L. H. Halton 1919 - 1921 J. A Kyker 1928 - 1934 F. H. Paschal 1934 - 1937 0. R. Long 1935 - 1944 L. A Warner 1937 - 1940 M. L. Alphin 1940 - 1944 Billy J. Portis 1940 - 1943 Fred R. Robertson 1944 - 1947 James M. Simmons 1946 - 1947 Fred R. Robertson 1948 - 1948 R. D. Blankenship 1948 - 1954 H. T. Short 1949 - 1950 C. Gurkin 1951 - 1951 Ben F. Lifsey 1951 - 1951 Joe F. Penn, Jr. 1951 - 1952 Joseph R. Taylor 1952 - 1983 Warren Lee Jones 1954 - 1955 Charles E. Chilcutt 1955 - 1986 Eldrage J. Usery 1955 - 1960 G. W. Turner 1956 - 1960 H. D. Gordan 1957 - " Benny J. Gilliam 1960 - 1965 Thomas A Vernon 1966 - 1969 William R. Hinton 1969 - 1986 E. J. Usery 1983 - " Garry S. Glass 1989 - " Philip W. Shelby

Home Economics Agents 1929 - 1934 Ellen Latting 1932 - 1934 Nita L. Orr 1935 - 1952 Robbie Latta 1943 - 1944 Gertrude Bond 1949 - 1950 Marjorie L. Duncan DECATUR (continued)

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1950 - 1952 Peggy Perry 1952 - 1955 Nancy C. Naylor Woodruff 1952 - 1953 Norma June Pettigrew 1954 - 1957 Shirley Beavers 1954 - 1954 Peggy Jean Clay 1955 - 1957 Mary Anne Godwin 1957 - 1964 Ruth M. Johnson 1951 - 1957 Janice R. Darnall Alford 1958 - 1963 Iva Shirley Beaver Dyer 1963 - 1967 Hilda K. Coleman Keeton 1963 - 1964 Janice L. Rowland 1964 - 1973 Dimple G. Ledbetter 1967 - 1972 Carrie P. Haney 1971 - 1974 Myrna L. Furr Baskette 1973 - 1977 Jeanine G. England 1975 - 1978 Janice P. Jones 1978 - * Teresa A Smith Haggard 1978 - 1986 Linda L. Black 1987 - * Jeanine C. England DEKALB

From 1940 through the early 1960s, DeKalb County was one of the regions known as the "fruit capital of the world." Fruit trees continue to be a primary source of income for the county through mail orders. The county was named for Baron DeKalb, a Bavarian who fought for American independence in the Revolutionary War. Smithville is the county seat.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 J. M. Thomason 1924 - 1925 H. K. Foster 1986 - 1989 Clyde Webster 1934 - 1972 Bethel Thomas 1972 - 1986 William A. Warren 1973 - 1975 Charles Thomas McBroom 1975 - 1977 David M. Mainord 1977 - * Stephen L. Officer 1986 - * Ronald H. Rogers

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Olah P. Polhill 1918 - 1919 Olive K. Barnes 1935 - 1940 Jessie Maude Grills 1940 - 1942 Fanny Gibbs 1944 - 1945 Marjorie Gilbert 1945 - 1946 Otha Dell Dodd 1946 - 1947 Alberta Sandell Dalton 1947 - 1948 Dorothy Lee Little 1948 - 1951 Agness M. Jackson 1951 - 1952 Betty Sue Johnson Rich 1952 - 1954 Gladys A. Turner 1954 - 1959 Betty Sue Johnson 1960 - 1961 Mary Lauderdale Harris 1961 - * Bettie Jo Smotherman 1970 - 1970 Emma J. Dudney 1971 - 1974 Dianne Locker Page 1974 - 1985 Janet S. Brown Hale 1974 - 1974 Donna J. Ward

DICKSON

The Dickson County Courthouse is reported to be the oldest courthouse still in use in the state; it was constructed in 1806 and rebuilt in 1931. The first iron furnace in Middle Tennessee was built in 1793 to take advantage of the rich deposits of iron ore in the area. The county was named for Dr. William Dickson, a Nashville physician. The area is also the birthplace of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1919 I. T. Elrod 1923 - 1923 G. T. Smart 1925 - 1942 T. H. Richardson 1936 - 1937 A C. Needham 1937 - 1939 Webster Pendergrass 1939 - 1942 V. L. Harden 1940 - 1941 Edwin C. Duncan 1941 - 1942 A E. Pugh 1942 - 1944 E. A Tooker 1943 - 1949 V. L. Harden 1944 - 1944 Joe P. Little 1944 - 1945 A E. Pugh 1945 - 1972 Clifton Goodlett 1947 - 1948 W. Martin Robbins 1949 - 1988 Marvin 0. Shepard. Jr. 1949 - 1949 Wm D. Bishop 1950 - 1951 M. Hutchinson 1950 - 1950 W. L. Chapman 1951 - • Kenneth Johnson

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Vannie DeHay Jones 1918 - 1919 Bertha Henry 1930 - 1931 Louise Whittington 1935 - 1939 Lucile Hunt 1939 - 1942 Margaret Dunn 1939 - 1939 Evelyn Hamilton 1942 - 1951 Mary K. Blackburn 1947 - 1948 Dorothy Nanney 1948 - 1951 Imogene Morgan 1951 - 1956 Kathleen Rauscher Bratten 1954 - 1954 Frank Wallace 1954 - 1956 Alberta Pennington Youree 1956 - 1960 Margaret Ann Ussery DICKSON (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1956 - 1959 Connie Sue Johns Stockard 1959 - 1961 Mary M. McArthur 1960 - 1968 Dorothy Jane Key 1961 - 1964 Polly L. Fussell 1963 - 1963 Nita E. Whitfield 1964 - 1967 Janice L. Rowland McRee 1967 - 1973 Nancy A. Johnson Skelton 1969 - 1972 Virginia Ruth Geary 1972 - 1986 Madeline L. Henry Cockerell 1973 - 1975 Dimple G. Ledbetter McGee 1974 - 1980 Nancy Jane Williams Wedgeworth 1981 - * Janet E. Cordell 1988 - * Melanie P. Pace DYER

l�II Dyer County, a large agricultural area, has long been the number one producer of soybeans in the state. Each year a local organization hosts a popular soybean festival. The county was named for Joel H. Dyer of Jackson, the owner of the Mciver 640 acre land grant. Several large industries add to the county coffers.

Agricultural Agents 1911 - 1911 R. L. Moore 1912 - 1913 M. H. Stevenson 1914 - 1916 B. A. Brady 1916 - 1917 E. F. Arnold 1917 - 1918 S. G. Abernathy 1918 - 1919 W. G. Wilson 1922 - 1929 H. P. Wood 1928 - 1931 B. E. Thomas 1929 - 1937 D. L. Wilson 1938 - 1961 D. B. Carter 1940 - 1942 0. R. Long 1942 - 1972 J. R. Barrett 1944 - 1947 James D. Davis 1961 - 1988 James T. Lloyd, Jr. 1972 - 1976 Tommy Pettigrew 1973 - 1977 David K. Glover 1973 - 1987 John Singleton ** 1975 - • Larry W. Skinner 1976 - 1980 Floyd D. Rutter 1980 - 1983 Hayden E. Miles 1981 - 1989 Gregory S. Allen 1987 - .. William 0. Taylor, Jr. ** 1989 - * Van E. Weatherford

Home Economics Agents 1916 - 1916 Mabel Wheatley 1916 - 1917 Flora D. Shelby 1917 - 1918 Ruth Luscumbe 1917 - 1917 Jessie B. Rogerson 1919 - 1926 Neta Mcfee 1927 - 1927 Anna Ware Douglas 1928 - 1933 Geneva Wiggs 1934 - 1943 Georgia Roberts 1942 - 1943 Jo Glover 1943 - 1944 Ruth Day DYER (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1943 - 1947 Mary Elizabeth Kerr 1944 - 1979 Martha C. Permenter 1947 - 1948 Martha I. Moss Armstrong 1949 - 1950 Kathryn Taylor 1950 - 1952 Jean Hooper 1953 - 1955 Emma Jean Kirk 1955 - 1968 Janie L. Fisher Putnam 1955 - 1955 Helen M. Parks 1968 - 1988 Janie L. Fisher Putnam 1971 - 1973 Linda L. Gibson 1973 - 1978 JoAnn B. Mischke 1978 - * Beth A Stumpe Bell 1979 - 1982 Mary M. Bradshaw 1984 - * Madge D. Winstead 1989 - * Sherri C. Morris FAYETTE l�I In a recent state-wide suNey, Fayette County ranked second among all Tennessee counties in total income from farm products. Located in West Tennessee, the county seat of SomeNille was named in honor of Lieutenant Robert SomeNille, who was killed in 1814 in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The county was founded in 1824.

Agricultural Agents 1913 - 1914 C. G. Denson 1914 - 1916 J. W. Moffatt 1917 - 1919 R. I. Anderson 1917 - 1920 W. A Owens 1919 - 1939 W. R. Davis 1920 - 1922 A. A. Pryor 1922 - 1927 S. P. Dent 1927 - 1944 C. 0. Woody 1938 - 1956 McAdams Sloan 1945 - 1962 Eugene S. Permemter 1946 - 1947 James P. Hall 1948 - 1949 John Q. Bradley 1949 - 1976 Everett E. Carrell 1954 - 1971 Jerry C. McMaster 1956 - 1957 Richard J. Goddard 1957 - 1965 James C. Gregory 1966 - * Obie L. Jarmon 1974 - * Jamieson H. Jenkins 1977 - 1981 Stephen J. Hutton 1979 - 1982 Hugh Harris Harvey 1981 - 1982 Paul H. Ivy 1984 - * Joseph Signaigo

Home Economics Agents 1916 - N/A Myrtie Hardin 1917 - 1919 Elsie Carton 1919 - 1919 Marie L. Ware 1919 - 1921 Annie Brasfield 1921 - 1925 Mildred Jacocks 1925 - 1925 Marietta McNeily 1925 - 1925 Gertrude Officer 1926 - 1942 Laura E. Smith 1941 - 1942 Mary V. Archibald 1942 - 1954 Gladys McMinn Porter 1943 - 1944 Ariedell Davis FAYmE (continued)

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1944 - 1952 Madgerine J. Henry 1952 - 1958 Vennie Mae Scates 1955 - 1956 Emma Jean Kirk 1956 - 1959 Joan Forrester 1957 - 1959 Julia Anne Simmons Stockton 1959 - * Bessie L. Rice Jones 1959 - 1961 Martha C. Duck Crawford 1959 - 1961 Barbara J. Pace 1961 - 1964 Virginia H. Millner Flanagan 1962 - 1964 Virginia Beard Walker 1964 - 1972 Nancy E. Ragan Parham 1964 - 1985 Carrie M. Jones 1972 - 1973 Phyllis L. Davenport 1987 - * Virginia B. Walker FENTRESS ,�1 World War I hero, Alvin C. York, helped bring the people of Fentress County into the 20th century by establishing the Alvin C. York Institute, the only state-funded high school. James Fentress fought the state legislature for the formation of the county in 1823. County residents named the area after him, and its county seat, Jamestown, also bears his name.

Agricultural Agents 1920 - 1920 Joe Eastes 1920 - 1920 John W. Flannery 1931 - 1932 Charles C. Brooks 1933 - 1933 W. L. Wright 1934 - 1948 Pryor Crooks 1944 - 1945 C. C. Brooks 1947 - 1957 Harry A. Martin 1948 - 1955 0. E. Wallace 1955 - 1982 Roy Davis Smith 1957 - 1959 Stephen K. Broyles 1959 - 1962 Edward P. Lanquist 1962 - 1965 Charles M. Whitehead 1966 - 1967 Charles W. Robertson, Jr. 1968 - 1976 Avert H. Brown, Jr. 1974 - 1975 Robert H. King 1976 - * George M. Kilgore 1978 - 1981 David Leslie Buhaley 1983 - 1987 Richard Daniel 1983 - 1989 Clyde Webster 1988 - * David 0. Blanconi

Home Economics Agents 1917 - N/A Massie Overton 1917 - 1917 Emelia B. Cope 1918 - 1920 Adelia C. Davison 1930 - 1932 WIiiie Mai Vann 1941 - 1942 Wilba Mae Austin 1942 - 1944 Pauline M. DeFriese 1947 - 1950 Susie Parker 1950 - 1953 Nellie Jane Hutson 1953 - 1954 Margaret Louise Schubert 1954 - 1956 Virginia Mae Stockton Gree 1957 - 1978 Patricia K. Sidwell 1971 - 1972 Judy C. Young FENTRESS (continued)

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1973 - 1975 Helen V. Gann 1976 - 1976 Margaret A Stone 1977 - 1983 Mary D. Judd 1977 - 1982 Janet P. Roberts 1983 - 1984 Eva I. Moffett 1984 - • Margaret A Pile FRANKLIN l�I In 1893, Robert Essary, Commissioner of Agriculture, sent a crimson clover seed to John Ruch of Belvidere in recognition of his successful farming methods. Mr. Ruch planted the seed and watched the beautiful crimson clover spread. Eventually it was grown extensively in the area and seeds were sold as a cash crop throughout the U. S. and Canada. The county was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. The county seat is Winchester.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1919 C. C. Flanery 1920 - 1921 F. C. McCuskey 1921 - 1926 J. D. Moore 1927 - 1935 N. H. Brown 1929 - 1931 C. R. Barnes 1935 - 1950 L. E. Barnes 1935 - 1967 T. L. Mayes 1936 - 1937 R. L. Acklen 1943 - 1943 Homer L. Laws 1944 - 1944 Homer L. Laws 1945 - 1948 Raymond Adams 1948 - 1968 Jarvis Moffitt 1954 - 1955 S. Stone Woodard 1955 - 1955 Arlie P. Hughes 1956 - 1962 Frank L. Brown 1962 - * Paul E. Carr 1968 - 1971 Marvin W. Belew 1971 - 1974 William F. Crafton 1974 - * M. Dewayne Trail 1981 - 1986 C. Dallas Manning

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Mary E. Cockran 1918 - 1919 Sophie Mae Shadow 1918 - 1918 Vera Duggin 1923 - 1927 Lemma P. Boles 1928 - 1928 Dorothy LaFollette 1929 - 1931 Lou C. Hamilton 1929 - 1929 Grace Pope 1935 - 1944 Mabel E. Biles Prince 1942 - 1944 Kathryn Burton Traver 1944 - 1947 Annie Kathryn Goddard Anderton FRANKLIN (continued)

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1944 - 1947 LaVelle Brown Sharp 1947 - 1949 Jean Pointer Zimmerman 1947 - 1951 Angeline Rust Jared 1949 - 1951 Willie Swafford Bible 1951 - 1951 Rebecca Bums Drone 1951 - 1954 Virginia Ruth Geary 1951 - 1952 Helen Foster Henderson 1952 - 1959 Dorothy J. Holland Arnold 1955 - 1966 Ann Rust Jared 1959 - 1964 Laura A Duke Simmons 1960 - 1960 Marietta Lashlee 1964 - 1964 Greta Brown Sain Hinds 1965 - * Crocia B. Roberson 1967 - • Elna R. Spears GIBSON l�I The city of Trenton, County seat of Gibson County, is home to a very special collection of porcelain Veilauses-Theieres (night-light) teapots, a gift from a native Gibson Countian living in New York. Gibson County has the oldest continuous fair in the South, dating back to 1856. The county is named for Colonel John H. Gibson, who seNed under in the New Orleans campaign.

Agricultural Agents 1911 - 1912 W. G. Gordan 1912 - 1913 G. L. Herrington 1914 - 1915 W. G. Gordan 1915 - 1917 S. G. Abernathy 1917 - 1920 T. W. Stephens 1918 - 1920 J. 0. Tackett 1920 - 1932 L. H. Haltom 1922 - 1923 R. T. Scruggs 1922 - 1922 H. J. Conley 1923 - 1923 T. E. Guthrie 1929 - 1930 R. U. Bond 1933 - 1934 C. P. Barrett 1934 - 1954 Thomas R. Wingo 1943 - 1943 Frank B. Felts 1943 - 1945 Thomas W. Towry 1944 - 1947 James K. Davis 1945 - 1976 James E. Gee 1946 - 1947 James K. Davis 1954 - 1955 Richard H. Pearson 1955 - 1957 Charles E. Chilcutt 1957 - 1965 James D. Harris, Jr. 1958 - 1959 Kenneth R. Broyles 1959 - 1960 Gene A Austin 1960 - 1972 James B. Nance, Jr. 1966 - 1968 Ronnie A Riley 1968 - * Larry D. Kimery 1972 - 1976 Julius L. Sammons Ill 1975 - 1985 Phillip Michael Smith 1977 - 1979 Joe W. Joyner 1980 - 1982 William Clark Rogers 1984 - * Curtis Lee Sullivan 1988 - * Jay P. Avery GIBSON (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Ruth Arey 1918 - 1918 Onis S. Procter 1919 - 1922 H. Elsie Catron 1922 - 1922 Mrs. W. A Parsons 1923 - 1926 Blanche Fisher 1930 - 1930 Lola Sullivan 1931 - 1931 Erin Tice 1931 - 1931 Corinne Milligan 1932 - 1937 Louise Snell 1937 - 1939 Agnes Donaldson 1939 - 1940 Lucy George Womack 1940 - 1943 Dorothy DeBow McClure 1943 - 1944 Elizabeth Richards 1944 - 1946 Lottie L. Thompson 1944 - 1948 Agnes V. Logan 1946 - 1947 Ella Jane Campbell 1947 - 1948 Mary Elizabeth Kerr 1948 - 1949 Erie Kate Porter 1948 - 1949 Margaret L. DeBow 1950 - 1951 Bettye Hopper 1950 - 1953 Elizabeth A Terry 1952 - 1956 Marion Ellis Crisp 1952 - 1956 Maude Janis Cude 1956 - 1978 Kathryn Hopper Bass 1957 - 1958 Marilyn Hancock Young 1957 - 1957 Dorothy DeBow McClure 1958 - 1983 Mary E. Kerr Lawler 1962 - 1962 Carrie M. Jones 1970 - 1971 Margaret W. Anderson 1972 - 1974 Mary C. Billings Wakefield 1974 - 1977 Barbara A Poole 1977 - 1977 Vanessa A Westbrook 1977 - • Marlon E. Crisp 1978 - • Deborah D. Hutton Seward 1983 - 1986 Suzanne T. Mccurdy 1988 - • Joetta Gay Turbeville GILES l�I Giles County revers the memory of its stalwart Confederate hero, Sam Davis. He was executed as a spy in Pulaski, the county seat, on November 27, 1863 by the Union Army. His famous last words were, "If I had a thousand lives, I would lose them all here before I would betray my friend or the confidence of my informer.· A statue of Davis was erected on the town square in 1906by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

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1915 - 1917 A. L. Love 1918 - 1919 A. W. Shofner 1920 - 1922 W. A. Haynes 1923 - 1927 J. E. Thomason 1930 - 1930 H. G. Cross 1931 - 1935 S. G. Garner 1935 - 1935 0. J. Lynn 1935 - 1935 V. D. Deering 1935 - 1939 T. B. Garth 1936 - 1969 M. 0. Maxwell 1936 - 1948 Ray S. Ward 1939 - 1941 Woodrow Luttrell 1939 - 1939 w. M. Cathey 1941 - 1942 H. D. Turrentine 1942 - 1944 Lewis E. Hewgley 1944 - 1945 William D. Crouch 1946 - 1946 Joe Black Hayes 1946 - 1946 Hal M. Herd 1947 - 1949 Terrell T. Jackson 1949 - 1950 Howard B. Simmons 1950 - 1953 J. N. Matthews 1950 - 1950 Dennis C. Deloach 1950 - 1950 Walter Stooksberry 1953 - 1970 Charles E. DePriest 1954 - 1954 Haywood W. Luck 1963 - 1965 Bobby Whittenburg 1965 - 1968 Iris W. Mclarty 1968 - 1972 Charles A. McPeake 1969 - 1977 Samuel D. Day 1972 - 1972 Edwin Keith Woods 1972 - 1977 John Kenneth Teague, Jr. 1977 - * James D. Taylor 1981 - 1984 Michael Paul Page 1985 - * David E. Qualls 1987 - * Kevin L. Rose GILES (continued)

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1917 - 1918 Sara B. Ridgeway 1919 - 1920 Kate M. Hooper 1920 - 1921 Mattie L. Barr 1920 - 1922 Anne W. Haynes 1922 - 1923 Susie C. Brown 1923 - 1926 Hattie L. Ross 1923 - 1926 Emma Lee Lewis 1926 - 1929 Mabel O. Myers 1926 - 1926 Maude G. Gentry 1927 - 1928 Sylvesta Brown 1929 - 1929 Corinne Hays 1929 - 1930 Willa B. Boyd 1929 - 1936 Jessie Bourne 1936 - 1941 Annie Belle King 1936 - 1937 Catherine Gaffin 1938 - 1944 Martha J. Love 1940 - 1941 Gladys Carleton 1941 - 1943 Mary Frances Lee 1941 - 1944 Katherine L. Morris Howard 1943 - 1943 Theresa Lawler 1943 - 1945 Elise Rhea 1945 - 1947 Mary Ruth Hunt 1945 - 1946 Georgia Pillow 1945 - 1945 Billie Dona Dowling 1946 - 1947 Lucille Graves 1947 - 1951 M. Elizabeth Kendall 1947 - • Gladys W. Williams 1 947 - 1948 Bebe Yearwood 1948 - 1950 Jane Mayes 1950 - 1952 Betty Lineberry 1951 - 1956 Mary I. Dement 1952 - 1958 Sue Elliott Cox 1956 - 1959 Elolse J. Crews Spivy 1958 - 1962 Margaret Pollard 1959 - 1960 Martha F. Thorne Wolfe 1960 - 1965 Virginia R. Blansett 1963 - • Mary T. Smith Lowry 1966 - 1968 Clara G. Hill Hairrell 1968 - 1977 Betty L. Duren Moore 1977 - 1983 Sally Stammer Hobbs 1984 - 1988 Patsy Ezell GRAINGER

Grainger County was named for Mary Grainger, the wife of Governor William Blount. It is the only county in the state named for a woman. The Grainger County jail is the oldest standing brick jail in Tennessee. It was recently renovated as a service project of the Extension Service Homemaker Clubs and the Historic Society and used as a community building for meetings, workshops and special community events.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 W. 0. Sharp 1918 - 1919 F. R. Hines 1933 - 1936 W. J. Sanford 1935 - 1940 Arthur Williams 1936 - 1937 A. A. Johnson 1937 - 1939 B. T. Strawn 1939 - 1940 T. B. Garth 1940 - 1940 P. W. Moore 1940 - 1942 0. M. Watson 1940 - 1946 James E. Butler 1941 - 1943 J. Hugh Felts 1942 - 1944 John B. Stoner 1943 - 1947 Earl S. Hurt 1944 - 1950 J. 0. Cunningham 1944 - 1944 Owen G. Taylor 1948 - 1948 John E. Walker 1950 - 1950 James T. Davis 1950 - 1956 James P. Grove 1951 - 1952 Paul Hutton 1952 - 1980 A. L. Daugherty, Jr. 1956 - • Charles W. Cavin 1957 - 1958 Thomas C. Mathews 1958 - 1960 Robert C. Haston, Jr. 1959 - 1960 Gene C. Moles 1960 - 1962 Paul E. Carr 1981 - 1984 C. Michael Jellicorse 1985 - * William K. Dunn

Home Economics Agents 1918 - 1920 Tilda Adsmond 1921 - 1921 Flora Neal 1930 - 1930 Lillie Oakley 1935 - 1936 Bennie L. Jones 1944 - 1945 Juanita Ross GRAINGER (continued)

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1944 - 1945 Pauline DeFriese 1944 - 1944 Ruth Taylor 1946 - 1948 Geneva Potter 1948 - 1961 Ellzabeth Hill Deyoung 1948 - 1954 Jean Agee 1954 - 1958 Ruth McWilliams 1958 - 1963 Barbara J. Vineyard 1963 - 1966 Nellie J. Carter 1967 - 1970 Joyce M. Carter Daugherty 1970 - 1972 Betty Jo Proffitt Hale 1971 - 1976 Jo N. Keeton 1972 - 1978 Barbara L. Humphreys Holt 1977 - • Allee A Moore GREENE l�I An April 26, 1783, Greene County was formed, with its name honoring General Nathaniel Greene, a prominent figure in the Revolutionary War. A short time later the State of Franklin movement began and the Greene County courthouse was used for its convention meetings. Greeneville was the capital of the "Lost State of Franklin" from 1785 to 1788. It is the birthplace of Davy Crockett and the final resting place of U. S. President Andrew Johnson.

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1914 - 1915 F. S. Harkleroad 1917 - 1919 H. H. Thomas 1923 - 1929 F. G. Vickers 1929 - 1931 W. K. Tipton 1929 - 1934 J. C. Powell 1934 - 1940 W. P. Davidson 1935 - 1938 J. J. Parks 1938 - 1943 P. W. Moore 1940 - 1944 G. A. Roberts 1943 - 1945 L. T. Cooper 1944 - 1946 J. Hugh Felts 1945 - 1946 D. Qulllan Harris, Jr. 1946 - 1949 M. N. Manly 1946 - 1950 Charles H. Edwards 1946 - 1947 Thomas B. Carney 1948 - 1950 John E. Walker 1949 - 1950 George L. Carter, Jr. 1950 - 1972 James 0. Cunningham 1950 - 1950 Edgar L. Meredith 1951 - 1951 John E. Walker 1951 - 1954 William Clyde Webster 1954 - 1955 John D. Love 1955 - 1956 C. N. Overton 1955 - 1958 Jackie W. Joyner 1956 - 1959 Ralph B. Mltchell 1958 - • Joseph Paul McClure 1959 - 1979 Arnold F. Hunter 1973 - 1976 Jake E. Haun 1977 - 1980 James K. Allen 1977 - 1984 Dewayne L. Webb 1979 - • Stephen J. Hale 1983 - • Stephen G. Bullen 1 985 - • MIiton W. Orr GREENE (continued)

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1916 - 1930 Mabel Moore 1935 - 1936 Thelma Jenkins 1936 - 1938 Mary Ellzabeth Davis 1936 - 1936 Martha E. Smith 1938 - 1939 Helen Mltchell 1939 - 1946 Aubry Scott 1941 - 1943 Louise Landess 1942 - 1942 Ellzabeth Lee Woodmore 1944 - 1944 Jeanne Russell 1945 - 1946 Mary Ruth Johnson 1946 - 1948 Louise Cox Judd 1946 - 1950 Regenia M. Fuller 1949 - 1950 Virginia C. Stovall 1951 - 1951 Mary Louise Smith Hacker 1951 - 1952 Darcus Ferguson 1952 - 1955 Vanita Ann Scott 1952 - 1955 Mary Leah Todd 1956 - 1956 Patsy L. HIii 1957 - 1960 Carolene Mason Owen 1958 - 1960 Anna O'dell Mays 1960 - 1961 Alice Johnson Moore 1960 - 1978 Margaret G. Propst 1962 - 1962 Alice Ruth Joyce Mlschkl 1962 - 1962 Alice Ruth Johnson Moore 1963 - 1968 Glenda Hale Turner 1963 - 1963 Helen Fox Gronert 1969 - 1970 Sandra Joy Felker Frye 1970 - 1977 Patricia J. Hawkins Taylor 1977 - 1978 Barbara L. Neal 1978 - 1984 Nancy L. Street 1978 - • Barbara H. Holt 1984 - • Demetra Brundige GRUNDY l�I Between 1883 and 1899 Grundy County was the scene of the Lone Rock Coke Ovens, where coal was converted to coke and shipped to Alabama to be used in the steel industry. Today, Grundy County is known for its magnificent scenery, acres of bluffs, virgin timber, trails and beautiful waterfalls. Felix Grundy, Attorney General under President Van Buren, gave his name to the county.

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1918 - 1918 N. Hutcheson 1918 - 1919 H. F. Bailey 1934 - 1935 William. F. Carpenter 1935 - 1946 J. M. Crooks 1935 - 1978 James L. Chance 1946 - 1947 Thomas A. Smith 1954 - 1956 Marlin S. Haston 1956 - 1962 Thomas K. Austin 1962 - 1963 Norman R. Huddleston 1964 - 1965 Jim R. Lynn 1965 - 1967 William C. Huff 1968 - 1971 Herbert L. Williams 1971 - 1972 Harlin D. Chunn 1972 - * Jerry R. Walling 1977 - 1985 Barry B. Cooper 1985 - 1988 Gregory Tompkins 1988 - * John Allan Wilson

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1917 - 1919 Elizabeth Gilman 1936 - 1938 Docia Masters 1941 - 1942 Mildred Kemmer 1943 - 1948 Catherine Campbell Cox 1943 - 1943 Mary Winifred Greer Haubenreich 1948 - 1951 Betty Windle Stickley 1951 - 1953 Betty Sue Graham Kilgore 1953 - 1954 Roberta Dunaway Haynes 1954 - 1957 Betty Ann Scott Fraley 1955 - 1959 Teresa Terry Joyce 1957 - 1958 Joanne Rogers 1958 - 1961 Jane Elizabeth Alsup 1959 - 1964 Jolly H. Pryor 1961 - 1964 Margaret Smith Brandon 1963 - 1966 Mary N. Hollis Franks GRUNDY (continued)

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1965 - 1966 Patricia A. Lambert Carrick 1967 - 1968 Mary N. Hollis Franks 1967 - 1971 Gall o. Woodall 1969 - 1970 Ella C. Johnson 1970 - 1976 Joanna Mullican 1971 - 1973 Etta Mae Westbrook 1973 - 1976 Wanda Faye Whitmire Bell 1977 - 1979 Joanna Mullican Bailey 1977 - 1978 Maggie F. Scoggin 1978 - 1980 Rita L. Collins 1979 - 1985 Vickie L. Martin Cooper 1980 - 1981 Reesa S. Porterfield 1983 - 1987 Donna S. Gillentine 1988 - • Brenda L. Andy HAMBLEN

Hamblen County is a heavily industrialized county, with more than $168 million in annual income. Its largest source of agricultural income is beef cattle and tobacco. It was the boyhood home of Davy Crockett. Morristown, the county seat, has unusual pedestrian skywalks, which were the first of that type construction in the nation.

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1915 - 1915 X. A. Neely 1917 - 1918 L. H. Dooley 1918 - 1919 H. N. Cox 1919 - 1920 L. H. Dooley 1920 - 1924 D. G. Stout 1925 - 1929 Carl G. Filler 1934 - 1935 John S. Robinson 1935 - 1949 W. K. Tipton 1935 - 1940 G. A Roberts 1940 - 1944 W. P. Davidson 1940 - 1942 Eugene S. Permenter 1942 - 1943 L. T. Cooper 1943 - 1947 Reginald Jellicorse 1948 - 1948 Glen F. Nicely 1949 - 1969 Charles H. Balch 1950 - 1953 Robert G. Smith 1952 - 1962 Jesse E. Francis 1963 - • James W. Bond, Ill 1969 - 1980 Wllllam R. Hinton 1980 - 1987 Eugene J. Medley 1988 - • Claradon L. Woody

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1917 - 1918 Meta Goodson 1918 - 1918 Grace Livingston 1919 - 1919 Ann Murphy 1920 - 1920 Kathleen Litz 1935 - 1940 Gorda Carrinton 1939 - 1939 Aubry Scott 1940 - 1944 Ruby McKeel Rives 1944 - 1946 Claudell Lyle 1946 - 1950 Margaret Morton 1951 - 1953 M. Elise Frazier Ooks 1954 - 1955 Lela Eileen Brown 1955 - 1957 Janice Hixon Hale HAMBLEN (continued)

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1958 - 1968 Ruby Nell Jeter 1968 - 1971 Bonnie S. Gary 1971 - 1976 Virginia C. Brown 1973 - 1975 Geraldine Bunch Carver 1975 - 1979 Patricia R. Wilkinson 1977 - 1985 Betty Jo Colvett Nielson 1985 - * Eva Vicky Price HAMILTON l�I The first chugged into Chattanooga, county seat, with great fanfare on December 1, 1849. The area grew as an industrial center, and was a strategic railroad junction during the War Between the States. Today, Hamilton County enjoys a good tourist trade, agricultural industry and recreation on the TVA lakes that provide transportation and electricity to the Tennessee Valley.

Agricultural Agents 1913 - 1935 W. J. Forbess 1915 - 1918 W. M. Landess 1920 - 1922 D. T. Hardin 1922 - 1935 C. L. Doughty 1935 - 1948 William F. Carpenter 1935 - 1942 J. Huse Martin 1938 - 1973 Samuel E. Mullins 1939 - 1942 E. A. Kerr 1942 - 1946 B. 0. Spaulding 1943 - 1946 Ben P. Clift 1943 - 1946 Edward G. Garland 1945 - 1945 Jesse L. Roberts 1945 - 1945 Paul J. Wood 1946 - 1946 Edward G. Garland 1946 - 1973 Horace H. Harmon 1949 - 1953 Philip B. Farris 1953 - 1956 Robert Childress 1957 - 1987 Henry B. Ford 1966 - 1973 Betty R. Tenpenny 1973 - 1975 Richard J. Winston 1973 - 1 984 Robert Childress 1973 - 1975 William Michael Tipps 1974 - 1981 Patricia C. Brogdon 1975 - 1977 Jerry L. Parker 1976 - * Jesse W. Hewlett 1977 - 1980 Austin Williams 1980 - 1984 James Ellis Bennett 1983 - * Marilyn G. Geraldson 1984 - * Joe F. Nichols 1985 - * John Tim Haralson 1987 - * Floyd David Rutter HAMILTON (continued)

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1911 - 1943 Elizabeth Lauderbach 1917 - 1919 Maude L. Guthrie 1917 - 1919 Gertrude Wright 1919 - 1919 Mrs. C. P. Washington 1928 - 1933 Earline Brown 1929 - 1964 Chassie Shelton 1935 - 1952 Mary Woods 1940 - 1940 La Una Brashears 1941 - 1942 Ruth E. Goddard Proffit 1941 - 1942 Kathryn Burton 1942 - 1943 Marcia Elise Rhea 1943 - 1946 Dorothy Barbee 1943 - 1943 Mai Bell Stephenson 1944 - 1944 Lavene Brown Sharp 1944 - 1944 Anna Kathryn Goddard Anderton 1945 - 1946 Evelyn Ruth Chapman 1947 - 1968 Eleanor Birdsong 1947 - 1947 Anna R. Chappell 1953 - 1957 Virginia H. Swoopes 1955 - 1955 Geraldine Conry 1955 - 1961 Sarah J. Hall 1957 - 1958 Thelma Jackson Carter 1957 - 1957 Ravine 0. Swaim 1958 - 1960 Annie D. Mitchell 1958 - 1958 Margaret M. Thompson 1960 - 1963 Alma J. Kidd Johnson 1961 - 1965 Teresa T. Joyce 1965 - 1966 Rachel Sewell 1966 - 1968 Sheryl L. Warmath 1968 - 1972 Delores A. Sue Corbett Dalton? 1968 - 1969 Barbara Faye Delay Sliger 1969 - 1972 Patricia B. Harris 1971 - 1973 Doris Ann Tilghman 1971 - 1971 Bonnie S. Gary 1972 - 1974 Ruth R. Travis 1972 - 1974 Merrill Lee North 1973 - 1982 Mary Frances Hamilton 1974 - 1986 Betty Trapp Bailey 1974 - * Marie W. Moyers 1982 - 1985 Patricia B. Stice Margolis 1986 - * June A. Puett 1988 - * Mellssa G. Upchurch HANCOCK l�I The theory that the Melungeons discovered America is only one of a dozen unproven legends that surround the dark-skinned people who have lived quietly for years on Newman's Ridge near Sneedville, the county seat. They were befriended by the Cherokee Indians who gave them land. The county is named in honor of John Hancock. a member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts.

Agricultural Agents 1918 - 1918 E. L. McConnell 1934 - 1936 M. V. Koger 1935 - 1938 W. B. Kyker 1937 - 1944 J. H. Ashburn 1938 - 1942 Joe E. Carpenter 1942 - 1946 L. K. Boyer 1944 - 1955 Delmas D. Hinds 1947 - 1948 W. Harold Julian 1949 - 1950 William F. Riley 1949 - 1949 R. E. Horne 1951 - 1951 C. H. Edwards 1955 - 1958 Robert S. Simpson 1959 - 1968 Robert C. Haston, Jr. 1968 - 1973 Hubert E. Lambert 1973 - 1974 James Aaron Knight 1974 - 1980 Roger Daryl Brooks 1975 - 1976 Ernest E. Smith 1977 - * Raymond A Morris 1978 - 1980 Larry W. Shelby

Home Economics Agents 19 18 - 1918 Carrie Anderson 1918 - 1919 Dora Lewis 1928 - 1929 Lillie Oakley 1929 - 1930 Alice A Pratt 1930 - 1932 Lucile Lee 1950 - 1950 Margaret L. Clem 1957 - 1961 Grace D. Walker 1970 - 1971 Sandra R. Monk 1972 - 1976 Donna A Wesley 1976 - 1978 Nancy E. Hobbs 1979 - 1982 Catherine D. Young Wolfe 1982 - 1986 Delores Kay Bridges 1986 - * Lynn Ann Johnson Pemberton

HARDEMAN l�I The County was named after Thomas Jones Hardeman, veteran of the War of 1812, who served as the first county court clerk. With Boliver as the county seat, Hardeman County is the final resting place of President James K. Polk. It is also the site of the national bird dog field trails held annually in Grand Junction on the Ames Plantation.

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1914 - 1918 J. A. Patrick 1917 - 1919 R. I. Anderson 1919 - 1922 J. L. Robertson 1923 - 1930 R. T. Hobson 1931 - 1936 R. U. Bond 1936 - 1958 E. R. Shockley 1937 - 1940 0. R. Long 1940 - 1944 Martin L. Alphin 1944 - 1944 D. P. Headden 1945 - 1971 L. A. Warner 1949 - 1952 T. 0. Walker 1952 - 1952 John S. Smith 1953 - 1954 G. W. Turner 1955 - 1958 John W. F. Caldwell 1958 - 1982 Shannon M. Buchanan 1958 - • John E. Knepp 1971 - 1976 Ken J. Goddard 1977 - • Robert T. Vickers 1979 - 1981 Stephen J. Hutton 1981 - 1982 Paul H. Ivy 1983 - 1986 Jimmy C. Castellaw 1984 - • Andrew L. Winston

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1914 - 1918 Mabel Hardin 1919 - 1919 Mrs. Vieger Umble 1926 - 1927 Sara E. King 1928 - 1932 S. Alton Douglass 1936 - 1971 Emma Person Davis 1936 - 1939 Rosalind Rogers 1940 - 1945 Margueritte Holcomb 1945 - 1945 Ann Lou Watson 1946 - 1949 Kathryn Taylor 1949 - 1950 Doris E. Frazier 1950 - 1963 Chloe Ann Vates HARDEMAN (continued)

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1952 - 1953 Nancy Ethel Walker 1953 - 1953 Bobbie Joe McCoy Caldwell 1954 - 1957 Anna M. Worley 1957 - 1965 Ailene Eddlemon Baker 1964 - 1966 Dovie Polsgrove Greer 1966 - 1966 Allee L. Barnhill Cate 1966 - 1968 Mary L. Rives Cox 1967 - 1968 Mildred J. Mann 1968 - 1971 Allene E. Baker 1969 - 1977 Allee J. Harvey Mitchell 1971 - 1973 Judith Cruise Kouach 1971 - 1975 Christine Shaw 1973 - * Winola B. Smith Shelton 1977 - * Mary L. Tapier De Foor HARDIN

Even "Yankee· children know that the battle of Shiloh was one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the Civil War, with more than 111,000 men participating. Union forces commanded by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant forced the Confederate Army under Gen. Andrew S. Johnson to retreat to Corinth, Mississippi. Over 3,CXX) killed, 16,CXXJ wounded and 3,000 were missing after the battle. Today, the largest industry in the county is the Tennessee River Pulp and Paper Mill.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1916 E. S. Roberts 1917 - 1919 L. C. McDaniel 1922 - 1923 A. w. Litz 1923 - 1942 w. C. Mitchell 1935 - 1942 A. M. Walker 1935 - 1935 S. G. Martin, Jr. 1935 - 1939 J. B. Barrett 1935 - 1938 S. P. Puckette 1936 - 1937 P. J, Wood 1939 - 1939 M. H. Luttrell 1939 - 1941 R. D. Matthews 1942 - 1944 W. W. Craig 1942 - 1946 R. D. Matthews 1943 - 1943 Thomas W. Towery 1945 - 1955 F. B. Carrington 1946 - 1951 Marvin Clifton 1955 - 1956 James Tracy, Jr. 1955 - 1965 Trochu B. Garth 1956 - 1958 Joseph R. Taylor 1956 - 1958 John E. Knepp 1958 - 1961 James J. Lloyd, Jr. 1959 - 1961 Paul H. Ivy 1961 - 1973 James Tracy, Jr. 1966 - 1967 Billy W. Livingston 1968 - 1984 William I. Butler 1973 - * Marcus F. Mclemore 1980 - 1983 Gary S. Glass 1983 - 1986 Jimmy C. Castellaw 1984 - * Finis Neal Smith HARDIN (continued)

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1917 - 1917 Myrtle Floyd 1917 - 1918 Lucy C. McDaniel 1918 - 1918 Mary Lee Garrett 1929 - 1934 Lurlyne Wilkerson 1934 - 1937 Mary Virginia Schwam Woollard 1937 - 1942 Gladys McMinn 1942 - 1945 Mildred McIntosh 1945 - 1947 Ruth Holmes 1947 - 1948 Ulllan Stover 1949 - 1952 Marie DePriest 1949 - 1949 Ellen Ruth Taylor 1953 - 1954 Jane Marshall Satterfield 1955 - 1959 Jolly Hill Pryor 1956 - 1957 Byrda M. Pratt 1958 - 1959 Mary M. McArthur 1960 - 1966 Phyllis S. Boggan Hamilton 1960 - 1961 Lenvie 0. Beaver Ledbetter 1966 - 1968 Jill L. Walker 1968 - 1970 Glenda S. Rogers 1970 - * Margaret A. Cochran Ashe HAWKINS l�I In the late 1700s, the main route from Washington, D. C. to Nashville was the Stage Road which crossed Hawkins County and the county seat of Rogersville. Several of Hawkins County's roads still follow portions of this original highway. Andrew Jackson is reported to have stayed at the Rogers Tavern on many occasions. The Knoxville Gazette. the first newspaper published in Tennessee, was printed in Rogersville.

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1915 - 1916 J. L. Hinshaw 1918 - 1924 M. V. Koger 1925 - 1925 John E. Summers 1930 - 1932 B. H. Mitchell 1932 - 1934 Fred McFee 1934 - 1948 Raymond E. Horne 1935 - 1938 Maurice K. Graves 1939 - 1943 Hugh Allen Russell 1941 - 1942 Edward G. Garland 1942 - 1944 Earl P. Shoun 1944 - 1949 Charles H. Balch 1944 - 1944 Harold P. Wood 1948 - 1974 Ralph F. Testerman 1948 - 1949 E. M. Henry 1949 - 1958 R. E. Horne 1950 - 1957 Raymond E. Cobble 1955 - 1980 Thomas B. Carney 1957 - 1960 Troy W. Hinton 1960 - 1965 Jimmy Earl Phillippi 1965 - * Thomas J. Bundy 1975 - 1976 Jack R. Queener 1982 - • Howard M. Still 1984 - 1988 John Goddard

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1917 - 1918 Mae Edwards 1919 - 1920 Willie Lyons 1920 - 1920 Mary B. Gentry 192 1 - 1922 Mary Deaderick 1930 - 1930 Lillie Oakley 1931 - 1931 Mabel Moore 1932 - 1935 Mabel Moore 1935 - 1939 Agnes Blake 1940 - 1944 Claudell Lyle HAWKINS (continued)

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1943 - 1944 Ruby Lee Morris 1944 - 1948 Ruth Taylor 1948 - 1950 M. Elise Frazier Oakes 1949 - 1955 Helen F. Baker 1951 - 1954 Nancy Ruth Winters Horner 1954 - 1955 Louise G. Davidson 1955 - 1955 Janis Hale Dukes 1955 - 1974 Helen F. Baker 1958 - 1959 Mary Rebecca Rucker 1960 - 1963 Roberta J. Headrick Jacobs 1963 - 1964 Grace F. Valentine 1964 - 1968 Lois Claudine Dixon 1968 - 1974 Martha Jo Tolley 1970 - 1971 Stanna A. Traver 1971 - 1972 Mary Lynn Jones 1972 - 1974 Patricia J. Price 1974 - • Renne Sue Satterfield Tolbert 1974 - • Judy Gray Cravens 1974 - 1974 Nyoka J. Tracy Fields 1974 - 1983 Doris C. Garrell 1977 - 1979 Billy Lynn Norris 1980 - 1982 Jill K. Jackson Hammon HAYWOOD l�I Haywood County is the site of the annual Peach Festival, honoring the many peach vendors and orchards in the county. College Hill, built in 1850 as a Baptist women's college, later became the county high school and is now being used as a museum and auditorium. The county seat is Brownsville.

Agricultural Agents 1913 - 1916 C. H. Denson 1916 - 1920 B. M. Elrod 1917 - 1918 Henry Polk 1918 - 1921 R. T. Butler 1922 - 1927 H. A. McPherson 1928 - 1946 0. U. McKnight 1935 - 1935 R. T. Hobson 1936 - 1965 Festus E. Jeffries 1946 - 1947 George L. Yarbro 1946 - 1982 James D. Pettigrew 1947 - 1963 Joseph D. Martin 1963 - 1971 James W. McKee 1966 - 1978 James A. Ashworth 1971 - • Michael E. Gordon 1977 - 1980 Travis Wade 1980 - 1988 James E. Reaves 1982 - • Steven R. Burgess

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1917 - 1918 Bertha Corbitt 1919 - N/A Mrs. Ann Rosamond 19'29 - 1930 Lula Tunison 1935 - 1936 Helen M. Canady 1935 - 1943 Larue P. Cleaves 1936 - 1938 Reva Bailey 1939 - 1943 Ellen Marie Tatlock 1943 - 1971 Maggie O. Moore 1943 - 1944 Mildred Fisher 1944 - 1951 Angie Worley 1951 - 1954 Betty Joe Milligan 1954 - 1959 Betty C. Williams Lankford 1959 - 1961 Betty Jean Sample 1961 - 1964 June D. Walker 1963 - 1964 Jeanette Sammons 1964 - 1972 Mildred F. Clarke HAYWOOD (continued)

1971 - 1982 Mary A Maclin 1973 - 1984 Margaret Ann Luce Welch 1984 - • WIima A Walker 1985 - • Cindy Runions Emison HENDERSON

Swine production contributes approximately $12 million annually to the economy of Henderson County, making it the primary agricultural income source for farmers. The county is noted for its feeder pig market, and its farrow-to-finish, purchased pigs and pure-bred operations are all significant operations in the area. Henderson County was named for Colonel James Henderson, a staff officer with Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans.

Agricultural Agents 1911 - 1915 W. R. Wilson 1915 - 1934 H. A. Powers 1934 - 1945 R. C. Darnall 1935 - 1947 J. E. Bonner 1935 - 1935 L. T. Roberts 1945 - 1971 Wilburn B. Wilson 1946 - 1978 Ben W. Rowlett 1947 - 1952 Haywood W. Luck 1952 - 1960 G. A. McPeake 1955 - 1955 Sam B. Stanfill 1956 - 1960 H. D. Gordan 1956 - 1957 Raymond D. Matthews 1957 - • Benny J. Gilliam 1971 - 1988 James W. McKee 1971 - * Gayle V. Parrish 1988 - * Ronald E. Blair

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1919 Annie Brasfield 1929 - 1930 Ann Clay 1930 - 1934 Georgia Roberts 1934 - 1938 Mamie Milam 1938 - 1948 Mary Elizabeth Key Butler 1948 - 1955 Estelle Vines 1955 - 1975 Mary K. Butler 1955 - 1957 E. Lucile Jamison 1957 - 1984 Anna Mary Worley 1973 - 1978 Sally M. Robinson .. 1976 - 1979 Patricia G. Martin 1979 - 1986 Dorothy N. Bingham Hall ** 1980 - 1985 Lisa L. Robbins Henderson (conitnued)

Home Economics Agents 1985 - • Betty Colvett Neilson 1988 - 1989 Pamela R. Privett 1988 - 1988 Joyce Page .. 1989 - • Dorothy Bingham Hall .. HENRY l�I Although Henry County is the home of three former state governors, it is most famous for being the site of the ·world's Biggest Fish Fry,· first organized in 1954. In the beginning, the Extension Service community clubs fried local catfish on the court square. Today the annual event attracts tourists from a wide area of the country.

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191 1 - 1913 W. S. Brown 1917 - 1918 D. M. Clements 1918 - 1924 J. A Patrick 1930 - 1934 Thomas E. Guthrie 1935 - 1938 Ed. Lee Stone 1936 - 1938 G. C. Richardson 1938 - 1942 David B. Price 1938 - 1939 D. M. Thorpe 1939 - 1942 Paul Horton 1940 - 1944 Webster Pendergrass 1941 - 1941 J. C. Stewart 1942 - 1943 G. W. F. Cavander 1942 - 1954 w. C. Mitchell 1943 - 1945 Robert G. Whitfield 1943 - 1943 Eugene Permenter 1944 - 1947 Eugene C. Presson 1945 - 1949 E. P. Greer 1946 - 1949 G. W. F. Cavander 1949 - 1952 Dalton R. Rushing 1952 - 1954 Joseph R. Raylor 1954 - 1955 G. W. F. Cavender 1954 - 1976 George Curtis Shearon 1955 - 1958 Ted P. McDonald 1955 - 1955 F. B. Carrington 1958 - 1982 John W. F. Calwell 1977 - * Ken J. Goddard 1977 - 1979 Kenneth W. Martin, Jr. 1979 - 1988 Ronald E. Blair 1984 - * Michael P. Page 1984 - 1984 Ellis M. White 1984 - 1984 Jeffery Fletcher

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1912 - 1915 Rosamond Clark 1916 - 1918 Hessie Hoss Smith HENRY (continued)

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1918 - 1919 Pearl S. Keller 1918 - 1918 Lucille DeRussy 1918 - 1930 Viola Annie Jenkins 1919 - 1919 Amada J. Hampton 1934 - 1944 Lurlyne Wilkerson 1945 - 1945 Jeanne Russell 1945 - 1947 Kathryn Hopper Bass 1946 - 1947 Martha Jo Boswell 1947 - 1949 Betty M. Scott 1947 - 1948 Mary Ann Rainey Peery 1948 - 1950 Jeannette Crawford? 1949 - 1950 Martha A. Pickens Anderson 1950 - 1951 Angeline Fisher 1950 - 1952 Mary Sue Mayo 1952 - 1952 Jacque Ing Veazey 1952 - 1955 Demetra Tarrant 1953 - 1970 Rubye S. Smith 1955 - 1956 Mary Katherine Moss 1957 - 1958 Eugenia Jetton 1958 - 1964 Joyce R. Ward Hastings 1964 - 1966 Brenda L. Gilley Brown 1966 - * Joyce W. Hastings 1970 - * Mary P. Ridgeway 1971 - 1972 Patricia Lee White 1973 - * Joye H. Rouse HICKMAN l�I The county was named for Edwin Hickman, hunter and explorer, who was killed by Indians in April 1791. The county leads the nation in number of deer harvested, bringing deer hunters to the area from across the United States. Hickman's most famous personality is Ophelia Colley Cannon, better known as "Minnie Pearl" of the Grand Ole Opry.

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1917 - 1919 J. W. Lovell 1920 - 1921 F. W. Kenemer 1923 - 1924 J. P. Ricketts 1926 - 1941 Harry R. Cottrell 1936 - 1938 Geary P. Dillon 1938 - 1939 J. Hugh Felts 1939 - 1943 0. J. Lynn 1941 - 1945 0. R. Holley 1944 - 1944 Everett A. Tooker 1945 - 1945 Clifton Goodlett 1946 - 1965 Ollie J. Lynn 1946 - 1951 P. W. King, Jr. 1949 - 1953 Stanton F. Smithson 1951 - 1971 Everett A. Tooker 1953 - 1956 James L. Pipkin 1957 - 1966 Marvin W. Belew 1966 - 1983 Robert W. Wilkerson 1966 - 1969 Joseph E. Winsett 1971 - 1977 Roger Dale Thomas 1977 - 1981 Mark L. Beeler 1983 - * William Kenneth Ambrose 1985 - * Patrick Troy Dugger

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1917 - 1917 Vida M. Mccallen 1918 - 1918 Dora Overby 1930 - 1931 Louise Whittington 1930 - 1930 Martha E. Smith 1935 - 1939 Margaret Beard 1939 - 1943 Annie Fay Stone Carothers 1943 - 1956 Mary N. Alexander 1945 - 1946 Evelyn L. Joyner 1947 - 1947 Frances G. Bowen 1947 - 1949 Carolyn 0. Edwards HICKMAN (continued)

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1949 - 1950 Fay DePriest 1950 - 1953 Betty Joe DeJarnatt 1953 - 1955 Emily R. Shofner Kemmer 1953 - 1953 Nelle Ruth Banks Smith 1955 - 1957 Ernestine McAdams 1956 - 1964 Dorothy Faye Hammond Lynch 1957 - 1959 Annie Ruth Smith Murphree 1959 - 1961 Mary K. Nolen Bates 1961 - 1977 Bettye Trotter Griffin 1964 - 1989 Jean W. Danley 1971 - 1977 Susan Janice Howell Griggs 1977 - 1986 Alice M. Harvill 1978 - • Catherine L. Lake HOUSTON l�I Several limestone kilns were in operation in Houston County in the 1930s and 1940s. The kilns employed over 200 workers, a large number for the county,espec ially at that time. The county was named in honor of Sam Houston afterthe Battle of the Alamo in Texas. Erin, the county seat, was founded in January 1871.

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1915 - 1915 T. H. Richardson 1918 - 1918 G. C. Wright 1918 - 1918 Charles S. Graves 1926 - 1936 W. W. Smith 1935 - 1935 J. A Patrick 1936 - 1937 V. D. Deering 1936 - 1939 Nathan Lowe 1937 - 1939 0. J. Lynn 1939 - 1943 P. A Turner, Jr. 1939 - 1941 o. R. Holley 1941 - 1942 H. R. Cottrell 1942 - 1944 W. W. Wilson 1943 - 1943 Woodrow Luttrell 1943 - 1944 Joe Perry Little 1944 - 1945 Roy B. Smith 1946 - 1948 Lewis H. Dickson 1946 - 1946 David E. Hinton 1947 - 1949 Reed Hooper 1948 - 1949 Clifton Goodlett 1949 - 1972 Jefferson D. Lewis, Jr. 1957 - 1957 Clifford W. York 1958 - 1963 Joseph E. Winsett 1972 - • Charles Jack Milton

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1912 - 1916 Ora Dillon 1917 - 1917 Dora E. Broaddus 1918 - N/A Maude Broaddus 1928 - 1930 Laura Davis 1930 - 1930 Mildred Hicks 1942 - 1944 Evelyn Thomas 1944 - 1946 Virginia Hitt 1946 - 1947 Evelyn Joyner 1947 - 1965 Louise Arnold Parchman 1958 - 1961 Dorothy S. McAuley HOUSTON (continued) Home Economics Agents 1965 - 1966 Betty Ann Robinson 1966 - 1967 Rebecca A Culp 1967 - 1968 Glenda K. Booker 1969 - 1981 Mamie L. Parchman 1981 - 1982 Nannie Bell Rye 1983 - • Sheila Sammons Settles HUMPHREYS

Humphreys County is the only county in the state where railroad, state highway and river come together. The battle of Johnsonville during the Civil War is now the site of the eastern portion of Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. General Forrest and calvary destroyed eight steamboats, 18 barges, three gunboats and many warehouses in the famous Johnsonville raid. Their intent was to disrupt Union General Sherman's supply line to his northern army in Georgia and stop the infamous "march to the sea.·

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1924 T. H. Richardson 1926 - 1930 E. A Kerr 1926 - 1926 E. G. Moore 1930 - 1941 W. M. Tolley 1936 - 1943 Clifton Goodlett 1939 - 1942 Nathan J. Lowe 1942 - 1944 Ralph McKnight 1942 - 1965 Hugh C. Stone 1945 - 1951 E. A Tooker 1952 - 1954 Vernon E. Ross 1954 - 1956 J. B. Shepard 1956 - 1959 Stanley Wills 1957 - • Carl D. Grimes 1967 - 1969 John D. Bartee 1970 - 1973 Carlton J. McKenzie 1973 - 1975 Gary D. Elliott 1976 - • E. Michael Wright

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1920 Ada L. Morris 1929 - 1932 Rhoda Howes 1938 - 1940 Azllee Snell 1940 - 1943 Mildred Potter 1943 - 1946 Edith Garner 1946 - 1947 Katherine Simpson 1946 - 1978 Jennie Beth Stokes 1952 - 1953 Margaret Pollard 1953 - 1957 Sarah Ruth Youree Willhite 1957 - 1957 Mary A Reed 1957 - 1959 Rudie F. Wallace Smith 1959 - 1962 Martha S. McCain HUMPHREYS (continued)

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1962 - 1964 Mary Nolen Bates 1964 - 1966 Rebecca A Culp 1967 - 1971 Wanda J. Winstead Moore 1971 - • Margaret Jane McDaniel Willis 1978 - 1979 Sandra Lee Steagall 1979 - 1982 Herbert Ann Jones Krisle 1984 - 1988 Robin Deann Lau 1989 - • Louise Biggers JACKSON l�I In 1979 Governor Lamar Alexander (now President of the University of Tennessee) signed a bill declaring poke sallet as the wild edible plant of Tennessee. Jackson County salutes this native plant by hosting a poke sallet festival annually during the first week of May. Located in the picturesque foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, Jackson County was named in honor of General Andrew Jackson, famous warrior, politician and statesman.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 J. B. Baker 1929 - 1930 H. E. Hendricks 1930 - 1932 Greene Thomae 1934 - 1935 C. B. Ross 1935 - 1944 S. J. McFall 1944 - 1947 H. L. Williams 1947 - 1949 Raymond E. Cobble 1950 - 1952 Thomas H. Copeland 1952 - 1973 Robert C. Smith 1973 - 1975 Jim R. Lynn 1975 - * Jackie McDaniel 1984 - 1989 Clyde Webster

Home Economics Agents 1918 - 1918 Katie E. Beem 1949 - 1953 Hazel Smithson 1954 - 1957 Annette Wherry 1957 - 1958 Polly Ann Goggin Webb 1958 - 1960 Mary Fausteen Agee Hodge 1961 - 1962 Louise A. Petty 1962 - 1963 Faye Bilbrey Harkleroad 1964 - 1966 Wanda G. Lutts Hudson 1966 - 1 968 Donna C. Girdley 1969 - 1970 Nancy C. Fox 1971 - • Nancy C. Fox

JEFFERSON !�I Jefferson County was originally part of North Carolina, and became a part of Tennessee in 1796. Dandridge, the county seat, is the second oldest town in the state. Beautiful farms are anchored to the French Broad and Holston rivers. The marriage license of folk hero Davy Crockett hangs in the county courthouse museum.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 Daniel C. Helm 1917 - 1918 F. R. Bradford 1924 - 1926 R. M. Murphy 1934 - 1935 H. P. Wood 1934 - 1974 J. C. Amos 1935 - 1935 W. D. Klieser 1936 - 1936 A. R. Ventis 1936 - 1945 Clyde York 1942 - 1943 Eugene Permenter 1942 - 1943 George T. Peters 1942 - 1946 0. M. Watson 1946 - 1951 James H. Robinson 1947 - 1947 Joe W. Pierce 1948 - 1953 C. N. Overton 1951 - 1957 W. W. Roberts 1953 - 1955 Robert L. Simpson 1955 - 1956 Robert G. Smith 1956 - 1956 James E. Douglas 1956 - 1960 Clarence B. Elmore, Jr. 1957 - 1961 Herman B. Lee 1960 - 1966 Samuel L. Parkenson 1967 - 1970 Robert F. Wadley 1970 - 1978 Jackie C. Hasty 1975 - 1979 Stephen J. Hale 1978 - * Billy J. Reed 1980 - 1981 Darrell E. Hale 1982 - 1983 Timothy F. Barnes 1989 - • Douglas H. Masengill, Jr.

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Margueritta Robinson 1919 - 1920 Mary Rowe Ruble 1921 - 1923 Tilda Adsmond 1935 - 1936 Gorda Carrington 1936 - 1941 Gussie Smith JEFFERSON (continued)

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1941 - 1943 Anna Margaret Knight 1942 - 1943 Elizabeth Richards 1943 - 1944 Margaret Morton 1944 - 1946 Juanita R. Davis 1947 - 1948 Mary K. Veltman 1948 - 1965 Frances L. Ritter Horton 1948 - 1949 Nadine Kilday 1949 - 1951 Lenore Gabbard 1951 - 1958 Helen Louise Rader 1965 - 1970 Camille H. Cihat 1970 - 1972 Mary A Ervin 1972 - 1979 Ida Pearl Maxwell Huffman 1979 - 1986 Ann L. Cherry 1984 - 1986 Angela Gail Doan 1986 - 1988 Risso G. Mitchell 1987 - • Rebecca A Murray JOHNSON

White pine is native to Johnson County, growing wild in many areas. More than 70 resident Christmas tree producers have grown the tree for profit, along with other ornamental trees. The white pine represents the tranquility, abundant natural resources and wildlife of the county. A early settler along the Doe River, Thomas Johnson, lent his name to the county. Mountain City is the county seat town.

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19 16 - 1916 E. F. Arnold 1918 - 1920 J. E. Carson 19 18 - 1918 J. T. Fuller 1920 - 1920 F. G. Vickers 1921 - 1921 W. A Rowell 1921 - 1921 E. C. Turner 1925 - 1925 Curtis F. Pack, Jr. 1927 - 1930 H. L. Miller 1930 - 1934 W. P. Davidson 1934 - 1942 T. R. Gilmore 1935 - 1943 V. W. Darter 1942 - 1944 B. Carter 1942 - 1942 Claude Norris 1944 - 1947 Noel M. Maddux 1944 - 1946 Hugh A Russell 1946 - 1949 Vernon W. Sims 1946 - 1946 Thomas D. Phillips 1947 - 1950 W. W. Roberts 1948 - 1948 Hugh A Russell 1949 - 1949 Joe W. Pierce 1950 - 1951 Edgar L. Meredith 1951 - 1952 Charles H. Edwards 1952 - 1972 John E. Walker 1955 - 1971 Delmas D. Hinds 1971 - 1975 William Keith Hart,Jr. 1972 - * Thomas E. Fortune 1976 - 1982 Rodney L. Davis 1982 - 1987 Gregory L. Riggs 1988 - * Andrew H. Strike

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1917 - 1919 Mary Deaderick 1920 - 1920 Olive Lewis 1921 - 1922 Eunice Dew JOHNSON (continued)

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1942 - 1943 Lilliam G. Bales 1944 - 1945 Alta F. Thomas 1946 - 1951 Elsa Lee Brobeck 1948 - 1949 Sara R. Sherrell 1951 - 1954 Janis Glyn Hale Dukes 1954 - 1956 Sara S. Butler 1958 - 1959 Myrtle A Duncan Brookshire 1959 - 1964 Allee M. Blackburn 1964 - 1967 Janice L. Harrison Murphy 1967 - 1968 Alice M. Blackburn 1968 - 1970 Mildred J. Mann 1970 - 1975 Elaine K. Wiedeman 1975 - 1984 Demetra Claar Brundige 1985 - * Connie G. Sharp KNOX l�I Home of the University of Tennessee and headquarters for the Tennessee Agricultural Extension SeNice, Knoxville and Knox County are called the "Gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.· Nowhere does spring make a more triumphant return than in the area, with its millions of dogwoods and rainbows of spring flowers. The William Blount Mansion and the James White Fort stand as a testimony to its place in Tennessee history.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1916 Adams Phillips 1916 - 1920 A J. Winegar 1921 - 1923 F. S. Chance 1922 - 1959 W. 0. Sharp 1924 - 1930 F. S. Chance 1930 - 1956 R. M. Murphy 1935 - 1940 Con S. Massey 1940 - 1944 J. M. Bird 1943 - 1943 George T. Peters 1944 - 1949 Harold P. Wood 1949 - 1950 Napoleon Earl Hixson 1951 - 1976 B. L. Gilley 1952 - 1957 Thomas H. Davidson 1957 - 1970 Napoleon Earl Hixson 1957 - 1963 Robert D. Freeland 1959 - 1978 Clyde N. Taylor 1961 - 1961 Richard W. Couch 1961 - 1961 Laurence M. Carpenter 1961 - 1961 William E. Bryan 1961 - 1961 Rural A. Peace 1963 - 1988 Sue E. Cox 1963 - 1970 James L. Pointer 1970 - * Douglas E. Dalton 1972 - 1976 Roger A Hinson 1972 - 1972 Joseph Windle 1976 - * Harry D. Bryan 1977 - 1978 S. Herb Lester 1978 - 1978 Jimmy Lynn Tate 1 979 - 1980 William L. Backus 1982 - 1983 David K. Horton 1984 - * Danny Bullington KNOX (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1915 Margaret A. Ambrose 1915 - 1918 Della E. Stroud 1916 - 1920 Mabel 0. Myers 1917 - 1919 LIiiiam L. Keller 1917 - 1918 Sarah Lovell 1918 - 1918 Helen Kennedy 1918 - 1921 LIiiian White 1918 - 1918 Annie H. Young 1918 - 1920 Ellen B. Russell 1919 - 1919 Margaret Mccreight 1920 - 1921 Mayme Parrott 1921 - 1922 Lillian W. Eudaily 1922 - 1923 Anna M. Sharp 1922 - 1937 Kate Gresham 1924 - 1925 Myra Reagan 1925 - 1926 Zella Williams 1926 - 1940 Inez Lovelace 1928 - 1937 Sheliah Guess 1930 - 1939 Correnia Buck Simons 1930 - 1936 Emma Ree Crooks 1937 - 1942 Helen L. Crawley Kincaide 1940 - 1944 Leleah B. Moriarty Brown 1940 - 1943 Ruby L. Morris 1942 - 1946 Minnie F. Harris 1943 - 1944 Anna Ruth Taylor 1943 - 1945 Mary D. Kirkpatrick Langford 1943 - 1944 Helen E. Carr 1943 - 1943 Juanita Holt Fasola 1944 - 1945 Leleah M. Brown 1944 - 1950 Ruby McKee! Rives 1946 - 1952 Ruth Esther Edmondson Staffney 1946 - 1979 Mattie R. Drinnon 1946 - 1946 Annie Rose Stephens 1950 - 1976 Margaret Morton 1952 - 1954 Nancy P. Hampton 1954 - 1965 Ester Hatcher 1955 - 1958 Elizabeth H. DeYoung 1973 - 1973 Rita Mosley Smith 1973 - * Rosalind L. Woodard 1976 - 1983 Bonnie F. Sheeley 1979 - 1987 Cheryl R. Kincaid 1985 - * Bonnie F. Sheeley 1988 - * Judy S. Groce LAKE l�I Indian legend related that the famous Reelfoot Lake was named after a Chickasaw chieftain with a crippled foot who kidnapped his Indian princess sweetheart from a Choctaw tribe. The earthquakes that formed the lake were Reelfoot's punishment for defying the tribal gods! Lake County is one of the most prosperous agricultural counties in the state.

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1914 - 1915 R. M. Riley 1916 - 1917 A. E. Arthur 1922 - 1922 L. E. Howard 1928 - 1935 W. M. Hardy 1935 - 1935 S. B. Puckette 1935 - 1944 S. G. Martin, Jr. 1944 - 1945 W. B. WIison 1945 - 1978 S. G. Martin, Jr. 1977 - 1983 John T. Bradley 1978 - • Hayden E. Miles 1984 - 1985 James Michael Conley 1985 - 1989 Phillip M. Smith 1989 - • Gregory S. Allen

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1917 - 1917 Mattie G. Harris 1917 - 1918 Blanche G. Hinger 1919 - 1921 Mary Lee Garrett 1921 - 1923 Mary E. Brooks 1928 - 1929 Hallie Prather 1955 - 1956 Betty Jo Yarbro Coates 1957 - 1957 Janice Ann Darnell Alford

LAUDERDALE l�I Lauderdale County is known as the "Tomato Capital of the South". The county held its first tomato festival in 1984; almost 800 acres of the county are devoted to tomato production. Produce is delivered as far north as Indiana and as far west as Texas. The Tupperware Co. has one of its three major manufacturing plants in the county.

Agricultural Agents 1913 - 1914 C. H. Denson 1915 - 1916 L. H. Dooley 1916 - 1917 J. W. Moffatt 1917 - 1919 E. S. Roberts 1919 - 1920 L. H. Haltom 1923 - 1928 E. B. Wright 1928 - 1939 N. S. Martin 1939 - 1972 Farmer H. Paschal 1946 - 1949 Leroy Collier 1947 - 1949 O. J. Nunn 1949 - 1950 William G. Lanham, Jr. 1951 - 1951 Ed Neil White 1951 - • Charles T. Peal 1974 - 1976 James E. Moody 1976 - • William G. Parker 1978 - 1982 David G. Hill 1984 - • James R. Buntin 1986 - • Samuel (Chuck) Danehower

Home Economics Agents 1914 - 1914 Fannie H. Scott 1916 - 1920 Nettie B. Crabill 1919 - 1919 Rebecca Davis 1928 - 1931 Ruth Barton 1931 - 1935 Juanita Bradley 1935 - 1936 Helen Waller 1936 - 1939 Dixie Ashcraft 1940 - 1943 Nancy Warren 1944 - 1945 Mary J. Fry 1946 - 1947 Mary Bailey 1947 - 1955 Cora S. Livingston 1956 - 1960 Helen Charmaine Robinson 1960 - 1962 Johnnie Alexander Matthews 1963 - 1963 Carol L. Walker 1964 - 1969 Johnnie A Matthews LAUDERDALE (continued)

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1970 - 1974 Jane H. Connell 1973 - 1975 Louise B. Doster Burnett .. 1974 - 1977 Deborah J. Gresham Stephens 1977 - 1979 Gwendolyn C. Chapman 1979 - • Jane H. Connell 1975 - • Christene S. Anderson .. LAWRENCE l�I The county was named for Captain James Lawrence, naval hero of the War of 1812, who is remembered for his "Don't give up the ship!" The county has one of the two national monuments to the Mexican War, placed in Lawrenceburg, the countyseat . in honor of Lawrence County native Captain William B. Allen. One of the largest bicycle manufacturing plants in the nation is located in Lawrence County.

Agricultural Agents 19 14 - 1918 C. P. Barrett 19 19 - 1928 G. C. Wright 1928 - 1945 Otto Hunerwadel 1929 - 1929 Frank Joyce 1935 - 1935 R. P. Ring 1935 - 1935 F. R. Hines 1935 - 1946 S. B. Stanfill 1936 - 1937 0. J. Lynn 1939 - 1940 J. W. Long 1941 - 1942 James D. Taylor 1943 - 1945 J. H. Dilworth 1946 - 1949 F. G. Yeargan 1946 - 1947 J. M. Crooks 1947 - 1973 Ralph P. Ring 1948 - 1948 H. G. Pryor 1949 - 1961 Earl C. Anderson 1950 - 1950 Roger C. McIntosh 1957 - 1959 Wayde T. Hornaday 1959 - 1974 Rodger P. Pile 1961 - 1963 Gene W. Turner 1963 - * James T. Matthews 1973 - 1978 Carlton J. McKenzie 1974 - 1977 Billy Gene Ayers 1977 - 1979 Robert M. Thomason 1978 - * Alton W. Jackson 1979 - * Ricky C. Skillington

Home Economics Agents 19 11 - 1911 Myra Tandy 1914 - 1914 Jennie Daws 1917 - 1918 Pansy Bowden 1924 - 1927 Marvel Bass 1927 - 1946 Minnie R. Stephens 1930 - 1930 Luelle Lee LAWRENCE (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1944 - 1945 Mary Evelyn Carroll 1946 - 1947 Otha Dell Dodd 1947 - 1951 Mary Joe Moran 1948 - 1949 Jolly G. Hill 1949 - 1949 June Reid 1950 - 1951 Jean E. Wilburn Danley 1950 - 1950 Maude E. Weems 1951 - 1952 Nancy E. Walker 1951 - 1953 Ruby Dill 1952 - 1956 Margaret M. Miles 1953 - 1954 Ann Margaret Givens Ester 1955 - 1957 Martha Marie Williams 1956 - 1960 lvola Dement 1957 - 1962 Hamilton 1960 - 1960 Mary E. Freeman Blair 1961 - 1965 Robbie E. Latta 1962 - 1964 Evelyn C. Simmons Hunt 1964 - • Ruth W. Beasley 1966 - 1968 Julia Crowell Campbell 1968 - 1978 Barbara S. Carrick 1978 - 1979 Melanie K. Harris 1980 - • Deborah K. McDaris Roberson 1989 - • Shirley P. Miller LEWIS

Founded in 1843, Lewis County is named for the famous explorer Meriwether Lewis who lost his life at Grinder's Inn near the Natchez Trace. The county was settled by the Swiss people whose principal source of income was from the forest and its timber products. The name Hohenwald, the county seat, means "high forest' in German.

Agricultural Agents 1918 - 1919 J. A White 1929 - 1932 C. M. Hume 1934 - 1943 J. H. Evans 1935 - 1936 Geary P. Dillon 1936 - 1938 Emerson Burnett, Jr. 1938 - 1942 H. L. Jones 1942 - 1944 Roy B. Smith 1943 - 1948 J. H. Evans 1944 - 1951 Louis Sawyer 1945 - 1945 H. L. Delzell 1946 - 1950 0. R. Holley 1951 - 1953 H. H. Huffines 1953 - 1953 Ben J. Lifsey 1953 - 1974 Irvin B. Epley 1974 - 1984 William E. Black 1984 - 1984 James Weatherford 1988 - * Kenneth J. Copley

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Pansy Bowden 1918 - 1918 Ethel Woodward 1918 - 1919 Harriette F. Parris 1944 - 1947 Muriel Franks 1948 - 1949 Maude Weems 1949 - 1951 Sue Elliott Cox 1951 - 1953 Manthus Martin 1953 - 1959 Betty J. Boyce Hinson 1959 - 1963 Mary T. Smith 1963 - 1965 Martha W. Wyatt 1965 - 1967 Jane C. West 1967 - 1972 Katherine C. Boswell 1972 - 1975 Helen J. Hart 1976 - 1976 Mrs. Johnnia H. Elliott 1977 - * Paula M. Ellis

LINCOLN

For 85 years fans from all over the South have visited the Lincoln County Fair, the only fair in Tennessee which sponsors harness racing. The county was founded in 1809 with Fayetteville as its county seat. It is named for Revolutionary War hero, General Benjamin Lincoln.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1918 A V. Beard 1917 - 1920 T. W. Stephens 1919 - 1920 G. L. Harris 1924 - 1932 C. P. Barrett 1933 - 1940 W. H. Rochester 1934 - 1936 Nathan Lowe 1936 - 1936 Thomas Wade McBride 1936 - 1937 Gilbert L. Cleland 1936 - 1948 Ray S. Ward 1937 - 1946 Kenneth B. McPherson 1940 - 1954 M. D. Brock 1947 - 1952 Lawson M. Safley 1949 - 1953 AT. Jackson 1952 - 1955 Thomas G. Mccutchen 1954 - 1969 William Marvin Cathey 1956 - 1969 Larry Glasgow 1961 - 1963 Rural A Peace 1963 - 1966 Joseph E. Winsett 1966 - " Roger S. Lyon 1968 - 1986 Joseph E. Winsett 1969 - 1970 Garth G. Alexander 1987 - " Darrell E. Hale 1989 - " Nathan Hugh Perry

Home Economics Agents 19 12 - 1921 Jennye Hardin 1926 - 1929 Virginia Branham 1929 - 1932 Bernice 1933 - 1937 Gertrude Roberts 1936 - 1936 Elizabeth Waggoner 1937 - 1939 Johnnie Hendrix 1937 - 1937 Martha J. Love 1940 - 1943 Dorothy Barbee LINCOLN (continued)

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1943 - 1944 Pauline Lewis 1944 - 1947 Wilma Nelle Jone Safley 1945 - 1946 Lucille Graves 1946 - 1947 Elizabeth J. Proffitt 1947 - 1948 Dorcus B. Ferguson 1948 - 1950 Christine Huber 1948 - 1953 Annie DuBoise Templeton 1948 - 1948 Nelle J. Safley 1950 - 1951 Ruby Dill 1951 - 1952 Betty Jo Edwards 1952 - 1955 Margaret R. Long Carter 1953 - 1987 Betty Jo DeJarnatt 1955 - 1956 Eleanor Walker Hammer 1957 - 1959 Shirley Ann Clipp 1959 - 1960 Patricia A. Bearden Shumaker 1960 - 1962 Barbara J. Jones 1962 - • Ruth A. Robinson Maddox 1971 - 1975 Kathleen W. Mccown 1975 - 1985 Amelia M. Haynes 1987 - * Janet B. Hale 1988 - * Tracy A. Harper LOUDON

The county was originally known as Christiana at its founding in 1870, but the legislature quickly changed the name. The county seat, Loudon, was first know as Blair's Ferry, with a steamboat landing and a few homes. The area is rich in archeological sites along the Little Tennessee River. It has the largest percentage of tillable land of any East Tennessee county.

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1916 - 1918 M. D. Brock 1918 - 1918 B. B. Gray 1919 - 1920 L. P. Gabbard 1920 - 1923 A A Thomason 1923 - 1930 G. C. Baker 1930 - 1955 H. 0. Bird 1936 - 1941 H. M. Adams 1941 - 1944 Owen G. Taylor 1941 - 1942 J. D. Beasley 1942 - 1942 J. H. Robinson 1942 - 1942 J. E. Moody 1943 - 1952 Harry A Goodman 1956 - 1979 Charles F. McCall 1958 - 1964 James A Pope 1965 - 1966 Mortimer L. Trew 1966 - 1968 Jimmy D. Dyer 1968 - 1969 John C. Tinsley 1969 - 1978 Roger L. Perkins 1978 - 1981 Rodney J. Creel 1979 - • Gene C. Moles 1985 - 1988 Darrell G. Ailshie 1982 - 1985 Louie "Bo" Freeman 1989 - • John J. Goddard

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1917 - 1918 Carrie C. Lovette 1919 - 1919 Cassie E. Cannon 1919 - 1920 Elizabeth Gilman 1920 - 1921 Alma B. Neal 1921 - 1921 Bertie Moore 1921 - 1921 Anna Sharp 1924 - 1924 Gertrude Officer 1943 - 1945 Elizabeth Woodmore 1945 - 1948 Nadine Kilday LOUDON (continued)

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1948 - 1949 Martha Lambert 1949 - 1952 Catherine Weaver 1952 - 1958 Mary E. McGuffey Harrison 1958 - 1959 Rose M. O'Brien 1959 - 1966 Sarah Ruth Walkup Ridenour 1966 - 1969 Juliette Estill Good 1969 - 1970 Barbara L. Bailey 1970 - 1972 Karen F. Nenstiel 1972 - 1976 Bonnie F. Sheeley 1976 - 1981 Susan S. Stivers 1981 - * Patricia R. Carver MACON l�I In the 1800s, visitors came to the sulphur wells at Red Boiling Springs to sample the waters and take baths, believed to be a remedy for many ailments. It was a popular resort area. Nathaniel Macon, a general in the Revolutionary War and a member of Congress from North Carolina, gave his name to the county, founded in 1842.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1918 H. G. Porter 1918 - 1918 R. G. Sanford 1929 - 1931 W. E. Hix 1934 - 1934 AC. Needham 1934 - 1934 Franklin Yates 1935 - 1941 Alfred E. Pugh 1944 - 1944 Herman W. Taylor 1945 - 1945 C. Davis 1945 - 1947 C. W. Blankenship 1947 - 1967 George Fletcher Luck 1956 - 1957 James G. McCall 1957 - • James D. Breeding 1967 - 1974 Glenn R. Thackston 1974 - 1983 Mark C. Farris 1978 - 1981 Frederick Keith Funte 1981 - 1989 Clyde Webster 1982 - * Steve Edward Walker

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Mrs. W. G. Stewart 1918 - 1919 Jennie M. Britton 1943 - 1944 Faye L. Miller 1944 - 1949 Mary E. Yeargan 1949 - 1950 Ola Mae White 1951 - 1951 Mary Lu Mason 1952 - 1955 Alma Jean Fox Johnson 1955 - 1956 Barbara Ann Cassetty 1956 - 1961 Charlene Colwell Pipkin 1956 - 1972 Madeline L. Henry 1971 - 1974 Melody L. Jennings 1972 - 1979 Roberta E. Edmonds Stinson 1974 - 1981 Judy S. Groce MACON (continued)

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1979 - 1982 Lillian R. Loggins 1981 - • Marcella I. Bybee Bentley MADISON l�I The county is the geographic center of West Tennessee, and the county seat of Jackson is known as the "Hub City." Madison County has hosted the Miss Tennessee Pageant for the past 34 years. Thomas Edison, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and John Luther "Casey Jones" are some famous former residents.

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1911 - 1915 S. S. Bond 1916 - 1934 Judd Brooks 1917 - 1918 Henry Polk 1918 - 1921 R. T. Butler 1922 - 1925 Roy E. Bell 1924 - N/A A. M. Dobbins 1925 - 1927 W. N. Hardy 1928 - 1933 T. R. Wingo 1934 - 1939 M. D. Brock 1934 - 1936 L. O. Colebank 1936 - 1965 Thomas W. Hillsman 1939 - 1944 M. H. Luttrell 1945 - 1952 George P. Robertson 1945 - 1965 A. M. Dobbins 1946 - 1947 John C. Clark 1947 - 1947 Clyde Chappell 1952 - 1955 John Q. Bradley 1956 - 1973 John Richard Swaim, Ill 1958 - 1986 John D. Butler 1966 - 1968 James B. Neel 1966 - 1983 Robert S. Elliott 1969 - 1972 Willard L. Upchurch 1972 - 1977 Jerry T. Patterson 1974 - 1976 Bobby G. Whitworth 1976 - * George Curtis Shearon 1977 - 1980 J. Glenn Gould er 1983 - 1988 Victor Lee Ivy 1988 - * D. Randal Morris 1985 - * William B. Wyatt MADISON (continued) Home Economics Agents

1911 - 1919 Maggie Lansden 1919 - 1919 Sallie I. Duvall 1919 - 1937 Bertha Corbitt 1937 - 1940 Louise Snell 1940 - 1941 Mary B. Campbell 1941 - 1947 Mildred L. Pierce 1941 - 1951 Eunice Wylie Doty 1942 - 1942 Mildred Maria McIntosh 1943 - 1944 Gertrude Davis Bond 1943 - 1944 Mary J. Fry 1944 - 1965 Anna B. Jackson 1945 - 1945 Lillian E. Stover 1946 - 1946 Ann Brann 1946 - 1948 Viola Shelton 1947 - 1947 Virginia A Sandefur 1947 - 1947 Betty M. Scott 1947 - 1947 Mary A Rainey 1948 - 1948 Erie Kate Porter 1951 - 1956 Sue F. Baldridge 1951 - 1955 Viola S. McCain 1955 - 1960 Mildred Pierce Alexander 1957 - 1960 Emma L. Rinehart Bond 1960 - 1961 Nena L. Miles 1961 - 1969 Joreita Harrington 1961 - 1973 Louise Conner 1965 - 1970 Ester L. Hatcher 1969 - 1974 Judy S. Cloud Orr 1973 - 1975 Mary A Lake 1973 - 1974 Carolyn R. Lewis 1974 - 1978 Susan C. Warren Kelly 1975 - * Judy L. Cloud Orr 1978 - 1981 Deborah C. Belew Newman 1981 - 1987 Janet Carole Moore McAdams 1989 - * Amy H. Elizer MARION l�I The county lies in the beautiful scenic Sequatchie Valley, where the mountains and Tennessee River have given the area the nickname "the Grand Canyon of the South." The county is named in honor of Francis Marion, better known as the ·swamp Fox,· who was famous for his role in the raid on Charleston. The county seat, Jasper, is named to honor another Revolutionary hero, Sergeant Jasper of Carolina.

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1916 - 1918 F. N. Hutcheson 1924 - 1935 Hobart V. Massey 1935 - 1939 J. L. Ikard 1935 - 1939 B. E. Winn 1939 - 1956 s. M. McKisslck 1939 - 1940 Kenneth Parker 1935 - 1946 J. L. Chance 1945 - 1946 R. C. Spaulding 1946 - 1974 Ralph W. Walker 1954 - * William A. Hall 1956 - 1963 Randal L. Hamby 1957 - 1959 Rural A Peace 1963 - 1967 Virgil T. Adams 1969 - 1971 Ronnie M. Seaton 1971 - 1974 William A Alexander 1974 - 1975 James R. Mochow, Jr. 1975 - 1976 W. Thomas Swanks 1976 - 1978 Gary D. Kimes 1978 - 1981 John C. Campbell 1982 - 1982 David M. Boyd 1983 - 1984 Ernest A Benoit 1984 - 1985 Geoffrey B. Holden 1987 - 1988 Claradon L. (Buster) Woody 1988 - * Gregory Tompkins

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1917 - 1918 Kittie McDonald 1930 - 1932 Blanche Miller 1932 - 1935 Lucile Lee Brown 1935 - 1939 Frances Mae Nave 1939 - 1945 E. Nell Kendell Cox 1945 - 1948 Cornelia Gladhill 1945 - 1945 Charlotte A. Falkner Lasater 1948 - 1952 Mary Foster MARION (continued)

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1953 - 1975 Betty Sue Graham Kilgore 1957 - 1958 Shirley G. Garland 1960 - 1970 Alma Kidd Johnson 1975 - 1976 Nanci E. Thacker Phillips 1976 - 1979 Jane Lee Bradtke Lamb 1979 - 1986 June A Puett 1986 - 1988 Betty Jo Haskell 1988 - • Vicki S. MARSHALL l�I Jersey cows were brought to Middle Tennessee from the Isle of Jersey in 1871. The climatic conditions and favorable soil of Marshall County are comparable with those found on their home island. The Jerseys flourished in the county and are of great economic importance to its residents. UT's Dairy Experiment Station is located in Lewisburg, the county seat.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1915 F. W. Fleming 1917 - 1922 E. B. Wright 1923 - 1924 W. A. Haynes 1926 - 1932 H. G. Cress 1934 - 1942 W. T. Pritchett 1935 - 1937 S. G. Garner 1936 - 1936 Ralph P. Ring 1936 - 1937 H. L. Jones 1938 - 1972 F. Emerson Burnett 1942 - 1947 W. F. Moss 1948 - 1949 Wm. D. Bishop 1949 - 1955 Adrian G. Fox 1949 - 1950 Joseph N. Matthews 1954 - 1956 Charles F. Wharton 1954 - 1954 Haywood Luck 1955 - 1971 T. J. Nutt 1970 - • Lester R. Brewer 1972 - 1974 Noble E. Cummings Ill 1974 - 1977 Curte C. Stitt. Jr. 1977 - 1979 Michael K. Wilson 1980 - 1980 James E. Key, Jr. 1981 - 1986 John C. Campbell 1987 - • Stephen S. Harris

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Mary E. Thomas 1918 - 1918 Ida Chitwood 1919 - 1921 Oma Worley 1922 - 1922 Bertie Moore 1922 - 1923 Mary C. Henley 1923 - 1924 Fanny A. Liggett 1926 - 1926 Leah H. Parker 1926 - 1928 Rhoda Howes 1929 - 1930 Margaret Hazelwood MARSHALL (continued)

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1935 - 1943 Mary Stanfill 1943 - 1944 Louise Waggner 1944 - 1945 Eliza L. Clark 1946 - 1947 Virginia Hitt 1947 - 1949 Annie Sue Landrum 1949 - 1956 Mary E. Yeargan 1956 - 1962 Martha M. Williams Moyers 1962 - 1965 Martha S. McCain 1965 - 1979 Jolly H. Pryor 1978 - 1985 Patty M. Waters Hill 1985 - * Carol Sue Strasser MAURY l�I All mule lovers know about Maury County. Mule Day began in 1840, when farmers brought their livestock to town to trade on days the courtwas in session. Jacks and mares were paraded along the streets for prospective buyers. This colorful tradition evolved into the present parade honoring the lowly mule of Maury County. The home of President James K. Polk stands in midtown Columbia, the county seat.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 0. L. Farris 1917 - 1920 T. W. Stephens 1917 - 1918 E. A McLean 1918 - 1919 G. C. Wright 1919 - 1921 E. A McLean 1921 - 1926 S. G. Abernathy 1930 - 1939 E. A Kerr 1935 - 1951 R. F. Haynes 1939 - 1968 Charles F. Arrants 1944 - 1971 George A Newbern 1945 - 1946 Thomas W. Towery 1946 - 1950 Allen H. English 1946 - 1971 George A Newbern 1950 - 1953 Felix Knight 1953 - 1956 Thomas R. Langford 1956 - 1983 James B. Shepard 1969 - • J. Leon Dixon 1971 - 1974 Charles F. Willis 1975 - 1977 Gonzalee Martin 1973 - 1978 Richard E. Groce 1978 - 1979 Jim D. Tracy 1979 - 1981 Robert E. Herbert 1980 - 1981 Susan A McConnell 1982 - 1986 Ralph H. Meacham 1984 - 1987 Floyd David Rutter 1989 - • Kevin D. Crider

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1918 Artie W. Bryan 1918 - 1919 Mrs. Nola Hardison 1919 - 1920 Sophie Mai Shadow 1920 - 1920 Lula Chriesman 1920 - 1920 Kate M. Crady 1924 - 1926 Geneva White MAURY (continued)

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1927 - 1928 Elizabeth Ridley 1937 - 1943 Bernice Giles 1938 - 1937 Glenn McClellan 1943 - 1944 Jane Starbuck 1944 - 1947 Mary L. Sawyer 1945 - 1947 Elizabeth Woodmore 1945 - 1945 Bernice G. Whitfield 1947 - 1949 Carolyn O. Edwards 1947 - 1948 Helen V. Fuson 1947 - 1978 Estha Cole 1948 - 1949 Yvonnie June Wheeler 1949 - 1950 Mary Cunningham 1950 - 1951 Barbara A. Brusse 1950 - N/A Eula M. Werthing 1951 - 1955 Jean Corley Harlan 1955 - 1957 Carolyn Coates 1957 - 1960 Ruth Y. Willhite 1960 - • Mattie Lue Glenn 1960 - 1962 Mary Lee Freemon Blair 1962 - 1965 Nancy Wheeler Wensyel 1965 - 1971 Judith A. Sharp 1971 - 1972 Linda G. Wells Sprouse 1972 - 1979 Cheryl H. Wager 1977 - • Jane Ann Gault 1979 - • Martha C. Long MCMINN

McMinn County ranks first among Tennessee counties in the production of Grade A milk. The Holstein cow, along with Jerseys and Guernseys, have brought national honors to McMinn County dairy producers. The county is named in honor of Governor Joseph McMinn; the county seat of Athens is named for Athens, Greece. Founders hoped the town would be the center of culture and learning like its Greek namesake.

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1917 - 1918 R. D. Boyers 1918 - 1919 John A. Gentry 1918 - 1918 W. A. Brickley 1921 - 1926 W. G. Adsmond 1926 - 1928 E. G. Moore 1928 - 1949 L. M. Amburgey 1928 - 1928 John A. Gentry 1935 - 1942 Horace H. Harmon 1942 - 1945 H. N. Carringer 1945 - 1952 Paul M. Koger 1948 - 1950 Russell H. Humberd 1949 - 1951 John B. Brower. Jr. 1949 - 1953 W. M. Cathey 1951 - * Marvin W. Lowry 1952 - 196 1 Willis A. Shadow 1952 - 1970 J. Huse Martin 1953 - 1954 Joe W. Brimm 1954 - 1959 Eidris V. Long 1959 - 1961 Robert L. Corter 1966 - 1969 Robert L. Sliger 1970 - 1974 D. Michael England 1970 - 1971 James R. McCray 1971 - 1978 Herbert L. Williams 1974 - 1975 Michael E. Smith 1976 - 1980 Darrell E. Hale 1979 - 1981 John M. Zinn 1980 - 1982 Robert Stephen Smith 1981 - 1988 Frank L. Brown 1983 - 1986 Mallena Cates Carmichael 1986 - 1989 David Scott Bane MCMINN (continued)

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191 1 - 1918 Lizzie B. Reagan 1918 - 1918 Alma L. Reese 1919 - 1919 Cassie E. Cannon 1919 - 1919 Vivian Gilmore 1919 - 1954 Myrtle Webb 1946 - 1946 Annie P. Whitson 1948 - 1950 Nellie W. Robinson Burdette 1950 - 1952 Grace Stover Odle 1952 - 1960 Nettie Ruth Brown 1954 - 1955 Virginia F. Boswell 1955 - 1957 Kathryn Lynch Simmons 1956 - 1956 Nellie W. R. Burdette 1956 - 1966 Betty Campbell Sharp Reed 1957 - 1959 Marthanne Smith Burn 1960 - 1962 Bettye C. White Sloan 1963 - 1963 Dorothy Marsha Carroll Flanigan 1960 - 1970 Alma Kidd Johnson 1964 - 1965 Virginia E. Pope White 1965 - • Marthanne Smith Burn 1965 - 1972 Dorothy Marsha Carroll Flanigan 1971 - 1973 Janice R. Elklns 1971 - 1974 Rita M. Thompson Loveday 1973 - 1977 Cecilia F. Shultz 1974 - 1976 Barbara Faye DeSha Mason 1976 - * Marsha C. Flanigan 1977 - 1979 Frances McDaniel Parnell 1979 - • Carolyn E. Rider MCNAIRY l�I Big Hill Pond State Park is a rustic park of upland meadow and wetland that covers 4,500 acres. South of the lake lies Dismal Swamp, which is bisected by a half-mile boardwalk. The swamp is known for its bald cypress, tupelo gum and a variety of wildlife. The town of Purdy was the first county seat; in 1891 it was moved to New South which later became Selmer, the present county seat.

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191 1 - 1912 0. H. Erwin 1912 - 1913 J. W. May 1917 - 1918 L. J. Kerr 1921 - 1924 W. T. McKell 1925 - 1935 E. C. McReynolds 1935 - 1938 D. M. Thorpe 1935 - 1965 J. L. McReynolds 1935 - 1940 W. B. Stewart 1941 - 1941 Ralph McKnight 1942 - 1947 T. W. McBride 1942 - 1942 R. D. Matthews 1946 - 1948 F. C. Powell 1946 - 1947 R. W. Moore. Jr. 1948 - 1950 G. S. Elkins 1948 - 1949 T. 0. Walker 1950 - 1950 Donald H. Spencer 1950 - 1951 J. Howell McMurry, Jr. 1951 - 1951 Billy M. Johnson 1951 - 1983 Alfred L. Jones 1966 - 1970 Jerry Max Barron 1970 - 1970 Danny T. Brown 1970 - 1976 Kenny S. Marbury 1975 - 1977 John Franks Bradley 1977 - 1979 Mark A. Segerson 1980 - 1983 Garry S. Glass 1983 - 1986 Jimmy C. Castellaw 1985 - • Ricky Mathenia 1989 - • Tracy L. McNames

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1917 - 1917 Florence Smith 1927 - 1927 Ivie Drake 1937 - 1938 Montez Wilkerson 1941 - 1943 Thora G. Williams Safley MCNAIRY (continued)

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1943 - 1945 Katherine Ford 1943 - 1944 Mary J. Fry 1944 - 1944 Ruthelie Ann Ferrell 1945 - 1948 Margaret L. DeBow 1948 - 1951 Betty Jo Sams 1951 - * Fairene Beecham Sewell 1971 - 1972 Vivian Merrill Lee North 1972 - * Rita J. Casey 1983 - 1987 Wondal Lynn Horton MEIGS

The open water plus secluded coves rimmed by forest and farmland make the Watts Bar Lake a receation paradise for thousands of families. Washington Ferry, the oldest in the state, operated in Meigs County. Blythe Ferry Waterfowl Management Area is a refuge for Canadian and snow geese, ducks, blue herons and deer. The county is named for RevolutionaryWa r officer Return Johnathan Meigs, who was later the agent of Indian Affairs.

Agricultural Agents 1918 - 1918 W. E. Moyers 1929 - 1949 W. A Shadow 1935 - 1935 M. E. Brown 1936 - 1942 W. F. Story 1938 - 1949 H. D. Gordan 1939 - 1941 J. N. Odom 1940 - 1943 Wesley N. Williams 1940 - 1940 E. S. Permenter 1943 - 1944 Dennis Patton 1946 - 1947 Raymond Cobble 1949 - 1951 H. D. Gordon 1951 - 1953 Ben P. Fletcher 1953 - 1975 Earl C. Gunter 1974 - 1976 Mac A Tidwell 1976 - * W. Thomas Swanks 1979 - 1981 John M. Zinn

Home Economics Agents 1918 - 1918 Elizabeth C. Peck 1941 - 1942 Viola Collier 1942 - 1943 Gladys Gibson Hamilton 1944 - 1945 Harriett Mai Rankin Hunter 1945 - 1948 Mary Foster 1950 - 1952 Louise Ashburn Petty 1952 - 1953 Edna West Carpenter 1953 - 1954 Jacquelyn A Cox Inman 1954 - 1957 Roberta Dunaway Haynes 1957 - 1958 Susan Riggins King 1958 - 1965 Dennis Blevins 1966 - * Clare N. Chandler Breeden

MONROE l�I The national capital of the Cherokee Indian Nation was once located in Monroe County. Sequoyah, the founder of the Cherokee alphabet, was born in Monroe County. The county also boasts Fort Loudon, the first planned white settlement in what was to become the State of Tennessee. More than one-third of the county lies in the .

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1916 J. E. Dunlap 1916 - 1918 J. C. Grimes 1921 - 1924 H. F. Foster 1923 - 1931 Alex McNeil 1931 - 1932 P. W. Moore 1932 - 1940 B. H. Mitchell 1935 - 1935 J. L. Chance 1935 - 1936 J. M. Brown 1936 - 1939 A E. Ventis 1939 - 1940 Charles H. Edwards 1940 - 1944 Arthur Williams 1940 - 1946 John J. Parks 1945 - 1945 Joe D. Beasley 1946 - 1951 Clyde N. Taylor 1946 - 1948 James 0. Hendricks 1947 - 1955 Noel Maddux 1951 - 1952 Alfred W. Thomas 1951 - 1965 W. W. Smith 1952 - 1961 W. A Shadow 1952 - 1955 Calvin V. Smith 1953 - 1954 J. W. Brimm 1956 - 1969 Ray C. Stamey 1956 - 1960 Billie H. Pruett 1957 - 1960 Frank A Varnell 1960 - 1962 Frederick Dale Oliver 1960 - 1969 James R. Hight 1969 - 1975 Robert L. Sliger 1970 - 1977 Larry E. Archer 1975 - 1979 Earl W. Law 1977 - 1978 Thomas E. Knight 1979 - • Robert L. Sliger 1979 - 1981 John M. Zinn 1983 - 1984 James P. Gibson 1984 - * William Herbert Byrd, Ill MONROE (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1916 - 1918 Ran Yearwood 1919 - 1920 Lydia A. Rosamond 1920 - 1921 Flora Neal 1920 - 1920 Lillian Wiley 1927 - 1929 Margaret Hazelwood 1929 - 1931 Genella McGhee 1931 - 1932 Evelyn Barton 1940 - 1943 Margaret Morton 1943 - 1944 Juanita Ross 1945 - 1946 Claudia Wiseman 1946 - 1950 Ruby Bacon Fuller 1946 - 1946 Louise Cox 1950 - 1951 Ola Mae White 1952 - 1952 Billie R. Browning 1952 - 1957 Dorothy J. Tipton Mason 1955 - 1955 E. Nadine Breedlove 1956 - 1957 Patricia C. Brogdon 1957 - 1958 Anna Faye Russell 1958 - 1961 Patsy J. Quick Carson 1958 - 1962 Bonnie Dale Sansom 1960 - 1960 Alma Kidd Johnson 1961 - 1965 Crocia B. Roberson 1962 - 1969 Betty C. White Sloan 1965 - 1968 Brenda L. McClard White 1968 - 1971 Joyce Foster Holland 1969 - 1971 Barbara R. Housley Gregory 1971 - 1977 Betty Lynn Thompson 1971 - 1972 Janet C. Robinson 1973 - 1979 Margaret Ruth Lewis Chester 1977 - • Bettye White Sloan 1979 - 1984 Carolyn C. Hicky Greenwood 1985 - * Catherine M. Jessee Montgomery County is home to Austin Peay State University, Dunbar Cave, and was the site of the first female academy in Tennessee. Native daughter, Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to earn three gold medals in track in a single Olympics. This Montgomery native won her medals in the 1980 Olympics and was subsequently inducted into the Black Athletes Hall of Fame.

Agricultural Agents 1915 - 1918 W. S. Baldwin 19 15 - 1915 H. P. Ogden 1917 - 1929 T. R. Ledford 1919 - 1922 A B. Harmon 1923 - 1928 H. H. Jones 1929 - 1929 William Moser 1936 - 1947 Ralph P. Ring 1936 - 1946 H. W. Short 1936 - 1971 John R. Branham 1942 - 1942 J. Newt Odom 1947 - 1954 James C. English 1947 - 1969 Paul Horton 1954 - 1963 Donald Malone, Jr. 1963 - 1964 Howard N. Jobe 1965 - 1965 Edwin D. Moore 1965 - 1971 Lester R. Brewer 1969 - 1981 J. Larry Glasgow 1971 - 1975 Jimmy L. Smith 1971 - 1973 Roger D. Philpott 1974 - * Roger P. Pile 1976 - 1977 Arthur R. Walker, Jr. 1977 - * Russell M. Evans, Jr. 1983 - * John D. Bartee

Home Economics Agents 19 12 - 1918 Carrie L. Johnson 1914 - 1914 Jessie McCullock 1918 - 1918 Bertha Henry 1919 - 1919 Susan V. Brown 1919 - 1921 Carrie Watkins 1922 - 1923 Oma Worley 1923 - 1924 Myrtle Floyd 1924 - 1925 Jessie D. Henry 1926 - 1927 Ruth A McClure MONTGOMERY (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1928 - 1935 Marvel Bass 1929 - 1930 Mildred Hicks 1930 - 1930 Laura C. Davis 1935 - 1939 Alice Powers 1936 - 1965 Margaret F. Harlan 1939 - 1943 Katherine Simpson 1941 - 1943 Alice Jarman 1943 - 1945 Kathryn Young Adkins 1943 - 1946 Jane Hardison 1945 - 1946 Evelyn Carrell 1946 - 1973 Mary N. Northcross Clark 1946 - 1947 Eloise B. Hunter 1947 - 1948 Hazel Bandy 1948 - 1949 Mildred Rogers 1949 - 1953 Pauline Y. Miller 1953 - 1954 Nancy Caroline Jones 1954 - 1960 Martha J. Donnell Savage 1960 - 1961 Julia P. Wright Goodlett 1962 - 1964 Dixie Inez Forester Saiger 1964 - 1967 Martha L. Daniels Swift 1967 - 1967 Joy L. Pratt 1968 - 1969 Virginia Hochnadel Fitzsimmons 1969 - 1971 Lou A McCulley 1971 - 1977 Linda Lee Dudney 1973 - • Martha M. Merklin 1973 - 1973 Brenda J. Martin 1973 - 1979 Ann L. Luther Cherry 1977 - 1978 Alice c. Goodloe 1978 - • Judith C. Kovach 1979 - • Beth Adelle Atkins MOORE

Moore County's largest and only major industry is the world famous Jack Daniels Distillery. It is the oldest registered distillery in the United States, having been founded in the 1860s. Oak barrels used to store the Tennessee sour mash whiskey are later used for making furniture and are shipped over the world. The quaint town of Lynchburg is the county seat.

Agricultural Agents

1914 - 1915 Frank L. Teuton 1917 - 1918 C. M. Franklin 1917 - 1917 J. 0. Tackett 1918 - 1919 J. R. Hickerson 1934 - 1936 James E. Ward 1936 - 1944 Louis Sawyer 1936 - 1937 K. B. McPherson 1944 - 1953 W. M. Tolley 1953 - 1978 Ben P. Fletcher 1977 - * Larry L. Moorehead 1981 - 1986 C. Dallas Manning 1989 - * Mitchell Mote

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1918 - 1919 Elizabeth Galloway 1949 - 1952 Mary Ruth Holman Cashion 1952 - 1954 E. Nadine Breedlove Winn 1955 - 1982 Mary Ruth H. Cashion Hall 1982 - 1986 Amy J. Hart 1986 - 1989 Katherine M. Billingsley Gross

MORGAN

Historic Rugby, founded during the Victorian period by English nobleman Sir Thomas Hughes, is a tourist and cultural attraction bringing hundreds of tourists to the area annually. The community was a working town for second sons of English nobility. The county was named for Major General Daniel Morgan, noted for bravery during the Revolutionary War at the Battle of Cowpens.

Agricultural Agents

1917 - 1917 A H. Coleman 1917 - 1919 Arthur Kyker 1922 - 1926 R. L. Lyons 1931 - 1935 C. R. Barnes 1935 - 1940 E. L. Perry 1940 - 1946 Charles H. Edwards 1948 - 1949 R. E. Horne 1946 - 1980 C. R. Jansch 1949 - 1951 H. H. Huffines 1951 - 1952 Jimmie K. Lancaster 1952 - 1954 William A Hall 1954 - 1955 Kenneth H. Hestand 1955 - 1956 Isaac David Howell 1957 - 1964 Mack E. Steele 1964 - 1965 George C. Mays 1966 - 1973 Harry D. Bryan 1973 - 1975 John B. McGuire 1975 - * David Kelly Amonett 1978 - 1981 David L. Buhaley 1982 - * Mack S. Smith

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1918 - 1919 Mamie Sloan 1931 - 1932 Lou Hamilton 1945 - 1947 Barbara Voorhees 1947 - 1948 Helen Deakins 1949 - 1951 Pauline Rich 1952 - 1953 Marjory Tempie 1954 - 1955 Kathryn L. Simmons 1958 - 1960 Ella Dean Brooks Pittman 1960 - 1964 Emma Jean Wilmoth Dudney 1964 - 1966 Nora A Eldridge Woods 1966 - 1968 Winifred A Gaither 1968 - * Julia F. Speer MORGAN (continued)

Home Economics Agents 197 l - 1975 Roye Estelle Combs 1975 - 1979 L. Rene· Loggin OBION

Obion County began as on agricultural county and remains the largest agricultural production county in the state. It ranks first in corn, wheat and fruit production, and is third in soybeans and groin sorghum. Area industrial plants include Dixie Gun Works, the largest supplier of muule­ looding ammunition in the U. S., and Goodyear, the largest tire manufacturing plant in the world under one roof.

Agricultural Agents 1911 - 1913 J. B. Skinner 1917 - 1917 C. E. Carter 1918 - 1919 T. H. Dougherty 1926 - 1934 Gilbert L. Cleland 1934 - 1940 Franklin Yates 1941 - 1955 T. B. Garth 1955 - 1957 Richard H. Pearson 1954 - 1959 James W. Workman 1957 - 1963 Thomas C. Mccutchen 1963 - 1983 Joseph M. Martin 1945 - 1948 Graham P. Wright 1949 - 1952 Marvin W. Belew 1952 - 1954 James T. Guill 1959 - 1961 Joseph Leon Dixon 1961 - 1963 Richard W. Couch 1963 - 1964 Guy E. Robbins 1964 - 1966 James T. Guill 1966 - " Charles W. Grooms 1973 - 1975 John S. Woolfolk 1975 - 1978 Sammy P. Elgin 1978 - .. Robert F. Montgomery 1980 - " Hayden E. Miles 1985 - " Timothy R. Smith

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1921 Eva P. Luther 1929 - 1931 Cora Lynn Lowe 1932 - 1943 Erin Tice 1943 - 1947 Bennie L. Jones 1947 - 1951 Ruth Holmes Osborne 1951 - 1955 Angie Worley 1955 - 1966 Cora S. Livingston 1961 - " Claire T. McCollum OBION (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1949 - 1951 Dorothy Hay 1951 - 1952 Carolyn F. Pritchard 1953 - 1956 Betty J. Bell Carpenter 1956 - 1957 Frances H. Perry 1957 - 1959 Charlotte P. Lake 1959 - 1960 Wanda J. Wilson 1966 - 1968 Doris E. Mitchell 1968 - 1971 Cheryl B. Matthews 1971 - 1978 Retta A Christopher 1979 - 1984 Lorette A Sporn 1984 - 1986 Amy Diane Henderson 1988 - " Benita G. Giffin OVERTON l�I Education was important to founding settlers of Tennessee. The arrival of Moses Fisk, a suNeyor and teacher at Dartmouth College, prompted the founding of Fisk Female Academy in 1806. It was the first female school south of the Ohio River and one of the first in the nation. Livingston is the county seat, and the town square is an historic site.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 I. T. Elrod 1917 - 1918 John D. Kelly 1918 - 1920 H. C. Coleman 1921 - 1921 Joe Eastes 1929 - 1932 E. B. Wright 1932 - 1932 B. H. Mitchell 1934 - 1946 W. 0. Sewell 1943 - 1943 Noel Maddox 1943 - 1943 J. Newt. Odom 1946 - 1952 Luke Lee Smith 1952 - 1987 H. B. Garrison, Jr. 1967 - 1971 Bobby G. Whitworth 1971 - 1973 Julius T. Johnson 1973 - 1974 Robert E. Beets, Jr. 1975 - * Ronald B. Johnson 1979 - 1980 Michael W. Lustian 1979 - 1979 John R. Berrier 1981 - 1989 W. Clyde Webster 1987 - * Eugene S. Medley

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Virginia LeNoir 1917 - 1918 Willie Alcorn 1928 - 1929 Wilma Schubert 1937 - 1937 Everelina Brock 1937 - 1938 Lorelle Paschall 1946 - 1947 Evelyn Chapman 1949 - 1950 Elizabeth W. Schofield 1950 - 1952 Marguerite Smithson 1952 - 1953 Geraldeen R. Walker 1953 - 1954 Betty Lou Colditz 1954 - 1961 Bettie Jo Smotherman 1962 - 1967 Sandra StooksburyWebb OVERTON (continued)

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1967 - 1969 Bethelda Jared 1973 - 1974 Paula Elaine Hyde 1974 - 1975 Blanche Elaine Moss 1975 - 1977 Donna J. Williams 1970 - 1973 Betty C. Brown 1977 - • Robbie J. Jackson Melton PERRY l�I The rolling hills of Perry County are covered in stands of hardwood trees. The timber industry is one of the main economic forces in the area. Much of the logging work is done with horses, as it was years ago. In 1909, 18 sawmills were active in the county. Today there are still 15 mills. The county was named in honor of naval hero Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the War of 1812 who said, ·we have met the enemy and they are ours!"

Agricultural Agents 1919 - 1919 0. M. Shelby 1931 - 1935 W. W. Smith 1935 - 1943 J. 0. Key 1936 - 1938 Gordon Jenkins 1939 - 1939 Woodrow Luttrell 1939 - 1957 H. F. Delzell 1943 - 1945 0. J. Lynn 1953 - 1964 Charles A. Lewter 1955 - 1962 Lou H. Jacobs 1958 - * Robert R. Roach 1962 - 1963 Harold V. Park 1964 - 1983 Earl C. Anderson 1969 - 1970 Thomas A. Vernon 1970 - 1976 Fred Long, Jr. 1977 - 1979 Curte C. Stitt, Jr. 1979 - • Richard S. Ritter

Home Economics Agents 1937 - 1940 Mary B. Campbell 1940 - 1943 Mary Joe Moran 1943 - 1944 Margaret Putnam 1944 - 1955 Sarah Fuller 1955 - 1956 Sarah Shirley James 1956 - 1958 Dorothy L. Horton Edwards 1958 - 1960 Eddie F. Neil Kilpatrick 1960 - 1966 Sarah S. James 1967 - 1974 Mary S. Woolard 1974 - 1979 Mary Beth Dowdle 1979 - • Eugenia C. Southall

PICKETT

Pickett County is the least populated county in the state. It is named for H. L. Pickett, who helped with the legislative bill creating the county. Cordell Hull, Congressman, Secretary of State and "Father of the United Nations,· was born in a cabin near Brystown, the county seat, in 1871. His birthplace has been reconstructed as an historic shrine.

Agricultural Agents 1918 - 1918 L. C. Hawkins 1929 - 1930 E. B. Wright 1931 - 1933 H. E. Hendricks 1934 - 1934 J. C. Amos 1935 - 1935 John A. Odom 1935 - 1945 Hollis Parrott 1945 - 1946 Luke L. Smith 1946 - 1949 Edward W. Copeland 1949 - 1955 Alfred C. Clark 1955 - 1987 Lyle A. Donaldson 1979 - 1980 Michael W. Tustian 1979 - 1979 John R. Berrier 1981 - 1989 W. Clyde Webster 1987 - * Richard D. Daniel

Home Economics Agents 1957 - 1961 Virginia S. Robertson Booker 1961 - 1969 Grace 0. Walker 1969 - * Linda A. Arms

POLK l�I Polk County is rich in its Indian heritage. Nancy Ward , the famous Indian, was perhaps the first "home economist" in the area, and is buried in the county. The Cherokee "Trail of Tears" passes through the county. Benton is the county seat. The county is named in honor of President James K. Polk.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1918 Frank R. Hines 1918 - 1919 N. I. Hancock 1931 - 1935 Frank R. Hines 1935 - 1950 Frank R. Bradford 1950 - 1968 James R. McCray 1935 - 1935 J. L. Chance 1935 - 1939 John H. Dilworth 1937 - 1939 Kenneth Parker 1939 - 1949 Russell G. Lawler 1941 - 1942 G. H. Stephenson 1942 - 1944 H. L. Williams 1946 - 1948 Earl C. Gunter 1962 - 1963 D. Ray Humberd 1964 - " William D. Ledford 1968 - 1972 Jerry R. Walling 1972 - 1977 Larry M. Craft 1977 - 1984 James L. Giffin 1988 - " Karen L. Corley

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1915 Mary Ella Doney 1916 - 1916 Margaret McKenzie 1917 - 1917 Carrie A. Anderson 1918 - 1919 Mary Rowe Rubie 1935 - 1937 Lorelle Paschall 1949 - 1949 Jean Pointer 1949 - 1958 Dennis Blevins 1958 - 1962 Susan E. Riggins King 1962 - 1967 Barbara F. Delay Sliger 1966 - 1966 Linda G. McGaughey Pendergrass 1967 - 1969 Lyndel R. Sparkman Bradshaw 1969 - 1971 Betty Waters Thompson 1971 - 1976 Joann Huddleston Stephenson 1971 - 1976 Freda Ann Rogers Hatcher POLK (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1977 - 1989 Diane Cunningham Giffin 1978 - 1983 Linda K. Bower 1984 - 1986 Norma G. Barham 1989 - • Lynn Raulerson PUTNAM l�I As hub of the upper Cumberland area, Cookeville is the county seat and home of Tennessee Technological University and Dixie College. Named in honor of General Israel Putnam of the Revolutionary War, it was created in 1842 from parts of White, Overton, Smith and DeKalb counties.

Agricultural Agents

1914 - 1917 Blair Harrison 1917 - 1918 Joseph Jacob 1918 - 1919 W. R. Rosson 1920 - 1921 W. G. Adsmond 1924 - 1941 H. J. Childress 1941 - 1942 J. L. Ikard 1942 - 1946 J. Huse Martin 1946 - 1957 H. J. Childress 1957 - 1961 Alfred C. Clark 1961 - 1988 Roy M. Luna 1949 - 1955 Argyle Q. McDonald 1955 - 1956 Alfred C. Clark 1956 - 1969 Robert D. Waddell 1970 - 1974 Herbert B. Smith 1974 - • James S. Chadwell 1983 - 1989 Clyde Webster 1989 - • William Gregory Upchurch

Home Economics Agents

1918 - 1919 Kate M. Hooper 1919 - 1919 Sarah Ridgeway 1928 - 1938 Wilma Schubert 1938 - 1938 Stella Synder 1938 - 1941 Dacia Masters 1941 - 1942 Ruth T. Morgan 1942 - 1945 Mary Ruth Hunt 1945 - 1954 Edna Nell Kendall 1945 - 1945 Cornelia Gladhill 1945 - 1947 Geraldine Hallmark 1947 - 1948 Geraldine Freeman 1948 - 1952 Louise Cox Judd 1952 - 1957 Marguerite Smithson 1955 - 1960 Alma Jean Fox Johnson PUTNAM (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1957 - 1970 Maurine Q. Cassetty 1960 - 1962 Lynne K. Robinson Farris 1962 - 1967 Janice J. Hurst 1967 - * Jackie B. Donaldson 1967 - 1967 Jeanette C. Lynn 1970 - 1970 Nancy A Sear 1970 - 1971 Sandra L. Russell 1970 - * Donna J. Clouse 1971 - * Belle L. Spurlock RHEA l�I Rhea County is one of the finest strawberry producing sites in the state. In the banner year of 1923. over 400,000 24-quart crates of strawberries were shipped by railway from the county. An annual strawberry festival honors the important role the fruit has played in the local economy. Dayton, the county seat, was the site for the famous Scopes evolution trial in 1925.

Agricultural Agents

19 17 - 1918 W. P. Davidson 19 17 - 1918 L. C. Pace 19 18 - 1919 K. M. Benson 19 19 - 1920 W. C. Sills 1921 - 1921 W. K. Tipton 1925 - 1925 W. K. Haynes 1926 - 1928 A A Fisher 1928 - 1929 E. B. Wright 1929 - 1929 C. H. Stewart 1930 - 1933 Homer Kline 1934 - 1935 H. E. Kendricks 1935 - 1941 W. F. Moss 1935 - 1939 Arley Hamby 1937 - 1941 Paul J. Wood 1939 - 1943 Earl L. Tipps 1940 - 1941 Raymond E. Cobble 1941 - 1951 Thomas H. Davidson 1942 - 1946 T. R. Gilmore 1942 - 1943 W. M. Tolley 1943 - 1945 Lawrence L. Swafford 1943 - 1944 J. Newt Odom 1944 - 1971 Earl L. Tipps 1946 - 1946 Horace H. Harmon 1954 - 1966 Robert W. Wilkerson 1955 - 1972 Calvin V. Smith 1967 - 1988 Harold C. Robbins 1971 - 1974 Jerry Donavin Frady 1973 - 1984 S. Dean Northcutt 1974 - 1978 J. C. West 1978 - 198 1 J. Dale Beaty 1982 - • Edward M. Burns 1984 - 1986 David R. Perrin 1988 - • Steven K. Cantrell RHEA (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1912 - 1915 Florence Train 1917 - 1917 Margaret Rogers 1918 - 1918 Lillie Lankford 1918 - 1919 Claudie Gilbreath 1918 - 1918 Virginia Branham 1920 - 1927 Sallie Duvall 1920 - 1921 Elizabeth G. Carpenter 1926 - 1945 Leela Taylor 1928 - 1933 Earline Brown 1945 - 1946 Martha Davis 1946 - 1949 Helen Baker 1 949 - 1960 Evelyn D. Robinson 1954 - 1955 Geraldine Conry 1955 - 1960 Virginia Ruth Geary 1960 - 1960 Janice L. Cochran 1960 - 1965 Marietta Lashlee Solomon 1961 - 1964 Elise Ann Masters Roder 1964 - 1970 Alma Kidd Johnson 1964 - * Margaret A. Roberson Hall 1965 - 1966 Madeline F. Wilder 1966 - 1969 Linda G. McGaughey Pendergrass 1969 - 1972 Melba P. Owensby Tew 1972 - 1973 Linda G. McGaughey Pendergrass 1973 - 1974 Monica E. Estes Frady 1974 - 1978 Elizabeth Ann Butler Robinson 1978 - 1982 Dawn A. Dixon 1983 - 1986 Terry Lynn W. Hooper ROANE l�I Archibald Roane, the third governor of Tennessee, gave his name to the county. Kingston, the county seat, is the site of the Kingston Steam Plant, at one time the world's largest coal-powered facility. It provides electrical energy to area residents through the Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric system.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1917 James L. Herron 1918 - 1920 A. R. Ferguson 1918 - 1918 James K. Luck 1920 - 1921 Robert B. Johnson 1922 - 1923 Alvin Hardin 1926 - 1942 H. H. Lawley 1935 - 1941 Ralph Testerman 1939 - 1942 Stanley Ezell 1941 - 1942 J. Newt Odom 1941 - 1942 J. E. Moody 1941 - 1943 M. N. Manley 1942 - 1943 A. C. Mullins 1942 - 1959 W. F. Story 1943 - 1946 Stanley Ezell 1943 - 1947 Paul R. Ashley 1943 - 1946 Stanley Ezell 1946 - 1946 M. N. Manley 1946 - 1948 Russell H. Humberd 1948 - 1951 William Clyde Webster 1951 - 1951 Archie Ralph Lloyd 1952 - 1954 J. P. Boatman 1954 - 1955 James F. Inman 1956 - • Kenneth E. Sutton 1960 - 1964 Gene C. Moles 1964 - 1966 James A. Womack 1967 - 1972 Thomas E. Fortune 1972 - 1973 Joseph Windell 1974 - 1976 Charles M. Finley 1977 - 1977 Victor H. Lowe 1978 - 1979 Lloyd T. Johnson 1979 - • Paul T. Mccallie ROANE (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1918 Florence C. Foster 1918 - 1919 Ethel Walker 1920 - 1927 Sallie Duvall 1920 - 1928 Glenn McClellan 1928 - 1933 Earline Brown 1928 - 1930 Ida Zumstein 1930 - 1931 Geneva Johnson 1935 - 1941 Edna Ann Rule 1941 - 1943 Wilma A. Stanley 1943 - 1944 Walter Mai Bell Stephenson 1944 - 1945 Gladys Gibson 1945 - 1961 Frances Odom 1945 - 1959 Martha C. Davis 1956 - 1959 Mary Eloise Shyll 1959 - 1960 Janice J. Maclin 1960 - 1961 Melda E. Nottingham 1960 - 1970 Marion B. Mariner 1961 - 1963 Sarah M. Cawthon 1963 - 1974 Mary A. Ross King 1970 - 1974 Wanda S. Smith Presley 1970 - * Betty L. McGlasson 1974 - 1981 Barbara Ann Lynn Evans 1974 - 1976 Patsy M. Blount 1976 - 1977 Mary Ross King 1978 - 1979 Connie Y. Mullins Roberson 1979 - * Nancy L. Blessing ROBERTSON

Tobacco is the leading cash crop in Robertson County, with annual revenues of approximately $20 million. Some 5,000 acres are devoted to three different types of tobacco production. Robertson County ranks among the top five counties in agricultural income for the last 20 years. The county is named for James Robertson who founded Nashville and is known as the "father of Middle Tennessee."

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 F. S. Chance 1917 - 1929 T. R. Ledford 1917 - 1919 Grady Lullock 1919 - 1921 H. H. Jones 1922 - 1922 E. Byrum 1922 - 1922 J. Ben Thomson 1923 - 1928 C. H. Moody 1928 - 1932 H. H. Jones 1929 - 1930 W. Robison 1934 - 1935 G. C. Richardson 1935 - 1936 J. B. Thomson 1936 - 1940 T. E. Guthrie 1936 - 1938 H. W. Wellhausen 1940 - 1946 Harmon Jones 1946 - 1947 Kenneth J. Johnson 1947 - 1951 Coleman E. Baird 1947 - 1947 James M. Wilkinson 1947 - 1955 C. W. Blankenship 1952 - 1953 James G. McCall 1953 - 1957 William V. Sigler, Jr. 1954 - 1984 Alonzo B. Jordan 1955 - 1957 Walter C. Cook 1957 - 1961 Raymond D. Matthews 1957 - 1963 Wilton W. Craig 1961 - 1962 Miles Carpenter 1962 - 1981 James E. Willhite 1963 - * Roy Donald Malone 1982 - * Robert G. Ary, Jr. 1985 - * Paul E. Hart

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Ruth Curd 1918 - 1918 Cornelia Doughry ROBERTSON (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1919 - 1919 Mabel A Hemphill 1927 - 1928 Helen Cullens 1929 - 1929 Louise Whittington 1929 - 1930 Clara B. Jenkins 1930 - 1936 Martha E. Smith 1930 - 1930 Margaret Hazelwood 1936 - 1937 Martha B. Hinton 1937 - 1941 Lucile Dixon 1941 - 1943 Ann Knight Seay 1943 - 1946 Katherine Simpson 1946 - 1947 Mary Joe Moran 1947 - 1956 Gussie Smith 1947 - 1950 Elizabeth Proffitt 1950 - 1951 Betty Jo Robertson 1951 - 1959 Rachel Ann Miller Farmer 1956 - 1957 Marie Mize 1957 - " Ernestine McAdams Goodwin 1957 - 1977 Virginia H. Swoopes 1957 - 1957 Gertrude T. Ezell 1959 - 1960 Roberta E. Stewart 1960 - 1967 Nancy E. Bagwell Nicholson 1967 - " Joan V. Billings 1967 - 1967 Dorothy S. Moore 1970 - 1974 Mary Ann Gregory Rush RUTHERFORD l�I Just outside Murfreesboro on the edge of an old rock quarry stands an obelisk marking the exact geographic center of Tennessee. Made of rock from the quarry, the obelisk was erected in 1976 to mark the 200th anniversary of American independence. Murfreesboro, the county seat, served as the capital of the state from 1818 - 1826. Rhea Seddon, the first female astronaut, is from Rutherford County.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1919 T. L. Robinson 1917 - 1918 E. R. Shockley 1919 - 1920 W. 0. Sharp 1920 - 1920 J. H. Moore 1924 - 1926 G. L. Hillingsworth, Jr. 1927 - 1933 Mark Womack 1934 - 1941 AF. Hill 1935 - 1941 W. L. Taylor 1935 - 1936 Gordon Jenkins 1936 - 1937 Lonnie Safley 1944 - 1945 Lonnie Safley 1946 - 1948 Woodrow Luttrell 1947 - 1976 David M. Moore 1949 - 1953 Leroy Hight 1950 - 1988 T any Webb, Jr. 1950 - 1950 Ben T. Cockrill 1953 - 1959 Felix E. Knight 1956 - 1980 Robert M. Ross 1959 - 1969 Ben T. Powell 1969 - 1978 Johnny U. Basinger 1979 - 1983 Kim D. Frady 1981 - 1986 C. Dallas Manning 1981 - * C. Joe McKenzie 1983 - 1986 Mitchell G. Mote 1986 - 1988 Jerry L. Parker 1987 - * Kenneth R. Simms 1989 - * Mary Ann McKnight

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Mary Hewgley 1917 - 1918 Mabel Dick 1919 - 1919 Susie V. Minter 1924 - 1924 Fanny Allen Liggett 1930 - 1930 Martha E. Smith RUTHERFORD (continued)

Home Economics Agents

1935 - 1938 Elizabeth Atchley 1938 - 1943 Ray Cole Baxter 1943 - 1944 Aileen Jolly 1944 - 1947 Margaret Proffitt 1944 - 1945 Evelyn Thomas Mitchell 1946 - 1947 Mary Ruth Tucker 1947 - 1950 Lucille Graves 1947 - 1948 Dorothy Harmon 1949 - 1950 Mary Lu Mason 1950 - 1951 Jane Mayes Batey 1951 - 1952 Sue Elliott Cox 1951 - 1953 Mary Joe Moran Whitfield 1952 - 1953 Barbara P. Ware 1953 - 1955 Joyce Marie Calfee Miller 1953 - 1955 Virginia L. Myers Walkup 1955 - 1957 Naoma Kerr Mcsween 1956 - 1957 Rita Gasperson Hilton 1957 - 1959 Mary Cox Morgan 1958 - 1960 Joyce M. Hibdon 1959 - 1964 Joyce A. Edmondson Dement 1960 - 1965 Martha Jo White Smith 1964 - • Barbara J. Vineyard Martin 1965 - 1968 Judy Carter Roberson 1969 - 1969 Donna J. Girdley 1970 - 1973 Anna Lou Holman 1973 - 1974 Jennifer D. Manlove 1974 - 1977 Joan Elaine Logan Wherley 1977 - 1979 Bonita Burrow Tate 1979 - 1981 Carolyn W. Padfield 1984 - 1986 Brenda L. Sanders 1970 - 1970 Gloria Jean Gibson 1988 - • Jill T. Martz SCOTT 1�, Abundant timber on tree farms covering hundreds of acres plays an important role in the economy of Scott County. Tibbals Flooring is the largest manufacturer of solid oak hardwood flooring in the world and is the area's largest employer. The county was named for General Winfield Scott and is the home of former Senator Howard H. Baker.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1917 J. L. Hinshaw 1918 - 1919 C. D. Smith 1918 - 1918 K. M. Benson 1926 - 1930 C. M. Franklin 1930 - 1934 T. R. Gilmore 1934 - 1945 C. E. Looney 1945 - 1945 H. S. Duncan 1945 - 1946 Harry A Martin 1946 - 1953 Royal H. Deere 1953 - 1975 H. H. Huffines 1975 - 1977 Charles T. McBroom 1978 - * Robert Melhorn 1983 - 1989 Clyde Webster

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Jemima Duncan 1 918 - 1918 Mary J. Strunk 1938 - 1939 Mamie Milam 1939 - 1 941 Ella Mae Crosby 1942 - 1943 Frances P. Moore 1944 - 1947 Martha Lois Crowley 1947 - 1951 Frances Wilson Smith 1951 - 1953 Kathryn Lunch Lynch 1953 - 1955 Mary Katherine Moss 1956 - 1957 Carolyn J. Chapman Butler 1957 - 1963 Vanna Joan Standifer 1963 - 1964 Linda Sue Woodall 1964 - 1965 Barbara A Warren 1966 - 1966 Shirley J. McBride 1967 - 1968 Anna B. Lucas 1969 - 1970 Julia M. Bilbrey 1970 - 1972 Judy A Mainard 1971 - 1972 Helen M. Messer 1971 - 1978 Lyna C. Pennycuff 1971 - 1973 Cecilia Faye Duncan SCOTT (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1973 - * Faye 8. Harkleroad 1978 - 1979 Mary E. Goode 1979 - 1988 Gail 8. Asbury King 1988 - * Christina C. Carr SEQUATCHIE l�I Nestled in the beautiful 100-mile long Sequatchie Valley, Dunlap is the county seat of Sequatchie County. The contrast between green fields, woodlands, rolling hills and sharp escarpment of the mountains make the area one of scenic charm. Legend says that the name "Sequatchie" was given to the area by the Indians; its literal translation is "hog trough."

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 B. B. Gracy 1918 - 1919 R. W. Kemmer 1925 - 1925 Wesley P. Flatt 1926 - 1927 H. K. Foster 1927 - 1935 J. L. Ikard 1935 - 1945 Greene Thomae 1935 - 1943 Lawrence L. Swafford 1943 - 1945 W. F. Story 1944 - 1963 Lawrence L. Swafford 1946 - 1946 Ralph W. Walker 1946 - 1948 B. F. Shelton 1956 - 1959 Wallace R. Woodlee 1964 - 1985 Mack E. Steele 1964 - 1965 Lawrence L. Swafford 1965 - 1985 James P. Grove 1985 - • Louie R. Freeman

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1917 Kitty McDonald 1918 - 1 919 Joyce Adkins 1930 - 1931 Blanche Miller 1945 - 1945 Vivian Jordon 1950 - 1950 Mary Sue Conley 1951 - 1952 Meryle Smoot Wagner 1952 - 1955 Lura B. Kennedy 1955 - 1956 Ywain McMahon 1956 - 1956 Alice Louise Storey 1957 - 1959 Betsy Ruth Boss Hatfield 1959 - 1960 Barbara Ann Davis 1960 - 1962 Jo Anne Williams LeVan 1963 - 1964 Carlene E. Etter 1964 - 1972 Ida Pearl Maxwell 1972 - 197 4 Jane L. Teeter 1974 - 1975 MaryAnn Morris SEQUATCHIE (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1975 - 1977 Mary Ruth Henderson 1977 - 1980 Kathy S. Perrigo Wilkerson 1981 - 1984 Sue G. Schlosshan Byrd 1984 - * Bonnie W. Fritch 1988 - * Nancy R. Forrester SEVIER l�I The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a large portion of which is in Sevier County, is the most visited park in America. Gatlinburg, at the entrance to the park, is a widely-known tourist attraction. Mount Leconte is the highest mountain (from base to summit) east of the Rockies. The craft industry, encompassing a variety of handmade and cottage crafts, is an important economic factor. The county courthouse in Sevierville is one of the most beautiful in Tennessee.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1917 Charles L. Doughty 1918 - 1918 R. G. Reynolds 1918 - 1919 W. 0. Sharp 1923 - 1923 F. E. Patton 1923 - 1924 John E. Summers 1930 - 1960 D. B. Hendrix 1960 - 1964 James G. O'Neal 1964 - * Joe W. Woods 1935 - 1951 M. R. Brasher 1942 - 1944 c. H. Balch 1963 - 1966 Grover G. VanDeGriff 1966 - 1988 Michael L. Sharp 1978 - 1978 John T. Roberson 1979 - * William A. Bruhin

Home Economics Agents 1914 - 1914 Mary C. Pollard 1915 - 1915 Mabel Moore 1917 - 1917 Nettie McClure 1918 - 1919 Annie Whittle 1920 - 1920 Fern Rose 1920 - 1920 Tilda Adsmond 1920 - 1920 Katherine E. Lewis 1932 - 1933 Melissa Bryant 1933 - 1940 Cornelia Bell 1940 - 1943 Ada Garland 1943 - 1947 Gussie Smith 1947 - 1948 Barbara Voorhees 1948 - 1950 Delta Ruth 1950 - 1955 Susan R. Cardwell 1955 - 1956 Madeline L. Henry 1956 - 1959 Susan R. Cardwell SEVIER (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1960 - 1962 Ruth Y. Willhite 1962 - 1964 Sandra M. Ross 1964 - 1969 Lola Ann Moore 1969 - • Virginia Faye Fitzsimmons Idol SHELBY

The largest city in the state and Shelby County seat, Memphis, sits on a bluff overlooking the mighty Mississippi River. The county was named for General Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky, who with Andrew Jackson negotiated with the Chickasaw Indians for western Kentucky and Tennessee. Shelby County is the most populous in the state, with chief agricultural crops of soybeans, hay, cotton and livestock.

Agricultural Agents 19 11 - 1918 J. E. Stansell 19 14 - 1916 D. Mercier 19 16 - 1917 Victor H. Klein 19 17 - 1919 James Washington 19 17 - 1917 W. B. Williams 19 18 - 1919 M. D. Brock 19 18 - 1918 Hugh Crits 19 19 - 1934 W. M. Landess 19 19 - 1924 W. M. Hardy 1920 - 1946 R. H. Brown 1924 - 1962 L. J. Kerr 1934 - 1952 E. B. Jenkins 1940 - 1962 John V. Reid 1944 - 1945 James K. Davis 1946 - 1982 Earnest Braule 1946 - 1946 R. D. Matthews 1947 - 1948 H. R. Short 1948 - 1949 M. C. Jenkins 1950 - 1950 John R. Cornwell 1951 - 1954 Cecil A Gedman, Jr. 1952 - 1952 George P. Robertson 1952 - 1957 T. 0. Walker 1954 - 1957 James T. Guill 1954 - 1957 John L. Williams 1957 - 1962 William Glynn Brown 1957 - 1958 Paul H. Ivy 1957 - 1959 Edward W. Sanders 1958 - 1970 Jackie W. Joyner 1958 - 1980 James T. Coleman 1959 - 1962 Paul W. Shipe 1960 - 1969 Margaret Dunn 1962 - 1973 Eugene S. Permenter 1962 - 1982 Ray E. Wilkinson 1962 - 1969 Edward W. Sanders 1962 - 1973 Paulus P. Shelby

SHELBY (continued)

Agricultural Agents

1969 - " William Vasser 1970 - " Margaret S. Love 1970 - 1971 Walter R. Miller 197 1 - 1972 Stanley F. Stansberry 1971 - 1974 Bobby G. Whitworth 1972 - 1973 Robert H. King 1973 - " Larry D. Darnell 1973 - 1974 Donald R. Pafford 1974 - 1979 Calvin F. Prince. Jr. 1974 - 1975 Charles D. Gay 1974 - 1979 Charles Ronald Akin 1975 - 1986 Marcus A Halcomb 1974 - 1981 Acie C. Murray. Jr. "* 1979 - 1982 Charles M. Finley 1980 - 1981 Richard J. Powell 1981 - 1984 Stephen J. Hutton 1982 - 1985 Virgil P. Culver 1982 - 1988 Richard J. Powell 1983 - " Philip A Coleman 1983 - 1987 Robert B. Elliott 1985 - 1986 Richard S. White 1986 - " Thomas G. Oswalt 1988 - " Edward W. Sanders 1988 - " James E. Reaves "* Home Economics Agents

1912 - 1915 Rubye Moffatt 1916 - 1922 Carra L. Harris 19 18 - 1918 Gladys Kimbrough 1918 - 1918 Lomizo Lanier 1918 - 1919 Clara Hasslock 1918 - 1918 Mary E. Johnson 1918 - 1918 Anne M. Marshall 1918 - 1918 Helen Stieger 1919 - 1919 Mrs. Iola W. Ellis 1919 - 1922 Mary B. McGowan 1922 - 1928 Lula Tunison 1923 - 1937 Agnes Donaldson 1929 - 1956 Jacqueline Hall 1938 - 1939 Louise P. Cole 1940 - 1946 Amelia Stanton 1944 - 1945 Minnie G. Armour 1946 - 1947 Willie Mae Bass 1947 - 1948 Martha Lou Shelton 1949 - 1959 Shirley F. Moore 1949 - 1950 Christine Nashio SHELBY (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1950 - 1951 Carolyn Stovall Godman 1952 - 1952 Kara Jean Mayo 1953 - 1958 Joanne S. Edmonson 1955 - 1983 Alberta C. Gaines 1956 - 1959 Josephine Lee Overall 1958 - 1970 Dorothy Barbee 1958 - 1960 Gertrude Rawls 1960 - 1962 Barbara W. Whiting 1960 - 1960 Carolyn M. Bertelson 1962 - 1983 Alice Jenkins Wilson 1970 - 1974 Sharon S. Clark 1970 - 1971 Pamela F. Burkett 1970 - * Dorothy A Herring 1971 - * Sudie Windom Alston 1974 - 1976 Frenchie Williamson • • 1974 - 1981 Velma L. McBride .. 1974 - 1975 Pamela L. Coonce 1975 - 1977 Jean Elin James 1977 - 1980 Cynthia S. Burton 1982 - 1984 Herbert Ann Krisle 1983 - * Martha B. Thomas 1983 - 1985 Helen H. Allen 1985 - 1987 Shirley Ann Hodum 1986 - 1988 Melanie K. Bell 1988 - * E. Diane Sammons 1989 - * Cathy C. Faust SMITH

Tobacco is the largest cash crop in Smith County, bringing an average of $7 million annually to the local economy. The county is named for Daniel Smith, Colonel in the Revolutionary Army and Senator from Tennessee at the time of the county's founding in 1799. The county seat is Carthage.

Agricultural Agents 1914 - 1916 G. B. Thackston 1917 - 1919 D. M. Galloway 1929 - 1935 N. B. Morgan 1935 - 1940 C. L. Simmons 1940 - 1942 William B. Stewart 1942 - 1949 Nathan J. Lowe 1949 - 1969 Edward W. Copeland 1956 - 1957 Jerry D. Cole 1958 - 1962 Clinton Campbell 1962 - * Jerry D. Cole 1969 - 1975 Jackie C. McDaniel 1975 - 1976 Lyle C. Conatser 1977 - 1980 Michael L. Langley 1982 - * Cynthia Heim McCall 1987 - 1989 W. Clyde Webster

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1918 - 1919 Hattie F. Wendell 1934 - 1940 Irma Ikard 1940 - 1942 Elizabeth Coleman 1942 - 1945 Anita Seymore 1945 - 1948 Elise Rhea 1948 - 1950 Loraine Houston 1950 - 1951 Kathleen Rauscher 1951 - 1953 Betty J. Williams 1953 - 1960 Hazel Smithson Tuley 1961 - 1962 Sara J. Warmbrod 1962 - 1964 Mary Ellen Lewter 1964 - 1966 Mary F. Alexander Ladd 1966 - 1970 Wanda Gayle Leitts Hudson 1971 - 197 4 Carolyn B. Webster 1971 - 1972 Betty S. Brown Gentry 1973 - 1975 Judy C. Young 1974 - 1986 Sandra Lynne Keeton Gregory 1975 - 1979 Ara Lucille Hire Greene SMITH (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1979 - 1982 Benita J. Bugg 1979 - 1979 Nancy J. Graham 1983 - • Janie E. Pedigo 1988 - • Charlotte Caperton-Kilburn STEWART l�I As part of the TV A system of dams for flood control and hydro-electric power, the Johnsonville Steam Plant is one of the largest in the world. Sitting on the banks of Lake Barkley near Cumberland City, it employs a large number of residents and has contributed significantly to the financial strength of the county. The county name honors one of the earliest settlers in the area, Duncan Stewart, who owned vast tracts of land in the county. Fort Donelson National Military Park is a Civil War landmark.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1919 0. M. Shelby 1919 - 1919 D. M. Rogers 1928 - 1940 J. B. Thompson 1936 - 1942 F. E. Timbs 1940 - 1942 L. 0. Akers 1940 - 1940 0. M. Watson 1940 - 1943 Joe P. Little 1942 - 1943 Robert G. Whitfield 1942 - 1943 R. W. Moore, Jr. 1943 - 1944 J. 0. Key 1944 - 1945 Henry Raines 1945 - 1947 J. C. English, Jr. 1946 - 1946 Robert G. Whitfield 1949 - 1950 Aaron B. Clement 1950 - 1981 Jesse E. Franklin 1981 - 1987 Shannon L. Morris 1987 - * Joseph Lee Griffy

Home Economics Agents 1917 - 1919 Dura E. Broaddus 1928 - 1930 Laura Davis 1930 - 1931 Mildred Hicks 1931 - 1934 Corinne Milligan Cherry 1934 - 1936 Catherine Gaffin 1936 - 1941 Louise Clark STEWART (continued)

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1941 - 1942 Edith V. Robinson 1942 - 1968 Ophelia Elam 1944 - 1944 Muriel Franks 1961 - 1961 Gladys Kay Sasser 1968 - 1973 Margaret R. Pollard 1971 - 1974 Nancy E. Hamlett 1971 - 1971 Wanda W. Moore 1972 - 1973 Nancy C. Hamlett 1973 - 1975 Emily Miller Daniel 1974 - 1978 Judy C. Kovach 1979 - * Linda D. Ballard SULLIVAN l�I Sullivan County combines the advantages of a large city with the best of small town life. Bristol's State Street is split in two, half in Tennessee and half in Virginia. Sullivan is the fifth largest populated county in the state and Tennessee Eastman is the state's largest employer. Bristol holds the title as birthplace of country music; the first country recording was made there.

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1916 - 1916 E. F. Arnold 1919 - 19 19 John E. Dail 1919 - 192 1 H. M. Cox 1921 - 1921 H. G. Giffin 1922 - 1930 H. P. Bird 1930 - 1950 G. C. Baker 1935 - 1973 James W. McClain 1942 - 1943 Noel Maddux 1946 - 1946 Winston E. Rollins 1946 - 1950 Hal E. Herd 1949 - 1953 Claude Prince 1950 - 1951 James H. Barnes 1951 - 1952 John E. Walker 1951 - 1952 George L. Carter. Jr. 1952 - 1957 Norman B. Lee 1953 - 1974 Claude Prince 1957 - 1968 Charles D. Holland 1969 - 1979 Jon M. Baker 1973 - " Hubert E. Lambert 1975 - 1976 Ronald W. Keck 1977 - 1988 Douglas H. Masengill. Jr. 1977 - 1977 Donald Marvin Badger 1978 - 1979 Cynthia L. Heim 1980 - " Charles D. Holland Sullivan (continued)

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1916 - 1916 Kate M. Wells 1916 - 1918 Crate E. Arrants 1918 - 1918 Alta E. Pardue 1920 - 1924 Carrie C. Lovette 1925 - 1927 Hallie M. Prather 1928 - 1931 Gena Snodderly 1928 - 1928 Lucile Easterly 1931 - 1935 Cora Lynn Lowe 1935 - 1966 Juanita Bradley 1941 - 1942 Elizabeth Lee Woodmore 1944 - 1947 Kathryn Brown 1947 - 1948 Jane M. Graham 1948 - 1949 Mary W. McClesky 1949 - 1953 Juanita H. Fasola 1950 - 1951 Rowena J. Keck 1951 - 1956 Elsie M. Lee Smalling 1957 - 1980 Helen R. Stocking 1958 - 1958 Frances L. Ritter 1966 - 1969 Leah B. Hoopfer 1969 - 1972 Patricia F. Bowling 1971 - 1978 Martha Jane Childress 1973 - 1976 Joyce A. Smith Gaines 1980 - 1981 Ella Luane Ellison 1982 - 1987 Jane Sue Bryan Mullins 1976 - 1987 Mary V. Kelly Clark 1987 - * Claudia G. Sprinkle 1988 - * Katherine Ward Long SUMNER l�I Sumner County was a part of North Carolina in 1786; it included Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties. It became a part of the newly founded Tennessee in 1799. Wynnewood at Catalina Springs was built in 1828 as a stagecoach inn and mineral springs resort. Now a state historic site and national historic landmark, it is believed to be the largest standing log structure in the state.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1917 L. C. Brewer 1917 - 1918 Paul F. Kefauver 1917 - 1950 G. W. Senter 1918 - 1920 W. L. Walters 1918 - 1918 F. H. Dunkin 1921 - 1923 James H. Evans 1924 - 1928 W. E. Schmidt 1928 - 1929 A C. Needham 1928 - 1931 J. C. Beevers 1930 - 1931 R. W. Holder 1934 - 1965 Charles W. Robinson 1944 - 1944 Clyde 0. Riggs 1946 - 1946 William D. Leach 1948 - 1950 Lewis H. Dickson 1950 - 1951 George L. Carter 1952 - 1978 Marvin E. Farris 1966 - • Gordon K. Pafford 1973 - 1978 Billy J. Reed 1977 - 1981 Roger D. Robinson 1 979 - • John Wesley Myers 1982 - * Stephen McNeil

Home Economics Agents 1914 - 1919 Adrienne Peay 1919 - 1919 Fannie Harrison 1920 - 1921 Kate M. Hooper 1921 - 1923 Ruth McGhee Fields 1923 - 1927 Margaret D. Trull 1929 - 1931 Elizabeth Fowler 1931 - 1934 Sue Taylor 1934 - 1941 Nita Orr 1936 - 1937 Lucille Dixon 1941 - 1941 Jessie Maude Grills 1941 - 1944 Lucille Dixon SUMNER (continued)

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1943 - 1944 Mildred English 1944 - 1945 Gladys Safley 1945 - 1946 Mary Evelyn Smith 1945 - 1945 Rebecca Shofner 1946 - 1947 Ruth Sneed 1947 - 1955 Helen Hardiman 1948 - 1951 Sue Sewell 1951 - 1952 Jane E. Morris 1952 - 1955 Dorothy Jean Matlow 1955 - 1955 Camilla Joyce Bivens 1956 - 1958 Jane C. West 1956 - 1960 Mary Neal Alexander 1959 - 1960 Mary Ann Bethshares 1960 - 1962 Sara Ann Ussery Miles 1960 - 1966 lvola Dement 1962 - 1965 Sylvia M. Cook 1965 - 1967 Janice F. Kyle 1967 - 1978 Dorothy S. Moore Dixon 1967 - 1986 Ann R. Jared 1975 - 1976 Erna F. Fair •• 1977 - 1979 Mary Lillette Johnson .. 1978 - • Judy K. Cook Pennington 1979 - 1986 Jacquelyn C. McKinley .. 1988 - 1988 Carol J. Denny •• 1988 - • Sandra L. Shivers 1988 - • Earlynn D. Bowman .. TIPTON l�I A familiar sight during haNest season in Tipton County is truckload upon truckload of baled cotton from one of the many cotton gins. Approximately 85 percent of the county's total acreage is devoted to farming; corn, soybeans. wheat, grain sorghum, hay and lespedeza are other principle crops. The county name honors Captain Jacob Tipton, who fell in St. Calair's defeat near Fort Washington in 197 1 .

Agricultural Agents 191 1 - 1913 G. B. Rhodes 1913 - 1913 J. W. Moffatt 1915 - 1916 H. M. Bissell 1917 - 1918 AC. Adams 1917 - 1919 James Washington 1920 - 1924 C. S. Hollingsworth. Jr. 1924 - 1925 W. M. Hardy 1927 - 1934 H. T. Pollard 1934 - 1960 W. G. McGowan 1960 - 1978 Houston D. Gordon 1928 - 1928 Lawrence Colebank 1928 - 1930 W. M. Tolley 1936 - 1937 0. J. Nunn 1936 - 1962 Clarence D. Haley 1937 - 1943 U. F. Halliburton 1943 - 1944 Robert D. Fisher 1945 - 1948 Walter S. Moore. Sr. 1949 - 1954 J. E. Pipkin 1954 - • George Ira Sellers 1956 - 1956 Otis Clinton Shelby 1956 - 1959 Guilford F. Thornton 1960 - 1989 Thomas 0. Shelby 1963 - 1984 Andrew L. Winston 1978 - 1983 James C. Nunn. Jr. 1980 - • Hayden E. Miles 1984 - • Timothy C. Hicks 1985 - * L. V. Jackson

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1916 Mary Lee Phillips 1917 - 1917 Annie T. Merryman 1918 - 1918 Rubye Moffatt 1919 - 1919 Kate B. Gresham TIPTON (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1928 - 1942 Ivie Drake Rhodes 1936 - 1938 Lucile Lanier 1938 - 1940 Annie Laura Dement 1940 - 1964 Alice E. Cottrell 1942 - 1945 Mary V. Archibald 1945 - 1947 Kathryn Johnson 1947 - 1951 Louise Barker 1951 - 1953 Charlotte McNeely 1953 - 1956 Marie Gibson Baddour 1955 - 1959 Mary June Johns Barron 1959 - 1962 Joyce C. Vineyard Rice 1963 - 1975 Marie G. Baddour 1965 - 1968 Helen Thomas 1969 - 1971 Sudie M. Windom 1971 - 1973 Minerva Jarrett 1973 - * Phyliss L. Davenport 1974 - 1985 Annie L. Wheeler 1987 - * Sharon K. Tubbs TROUSDALE l�I Trousdale County is the smallest in Tennessee. It is known for its Southern hospitality and neighborliness. A farmers' market failed because residents wanted to give their surplus produce away rather than sell it. Hartsville, the county seat, has the oldest tobacco market in Middle Tennessee and was the scene of the Hartsville horse races in the early 1800s, frequently attended by Andrew Jackson.

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1918 - 1919 William B. Shoulders 1919 - 1919 J. Ben Thomson 1930 - 1953 Wayne C. Cook 1953 - 1954 W. M. Cathey 1954 - 1989 W. Clyde Webster 1981 - * Mark L. Beeler

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1917 - 1917 Mrs. W. G. Stewart 1917 - 1918 Elma Martin 1919 - 1919 Maude Broaddus 1919 - 1919 Fannie Harrison 1944 - 1946 Eloise Hunter 1946 - 1952 Colleen Terry 1952 - 1954 Helyn H. Sheppard Butler 1954 - 1956 Miriam Jenkins 1954 - 1960 Eleanor Warmbrod Satterfield 1960 - 1962 Nancy Jo Quarles 1962 - 1963 Linda L. Harris Taylor 1963 - 1966 Bonnie L. Safley Gary 1966 - 1967 Judith J. Smith 1967 - 1970 Betty S. Brown 1971 - 1976 Jane Elam Hundley 1976 - 1978 Dorinda Ann Gaw 1978 - * Kathryn A. Atwood-Gammons

UNICOI l�I Both national and state fish hatcheries are located in the county seat of Erwin. These hatcheries supply the streams for Tennessee and other states, as well as conducting research for other area hatcheries. The first name of the county was "Una wah," which was the Indian name for the Unaka mountain range. Unicoi was the pronunciation in the Indians' native tongue. The passes through the county.

Agricultural Agents 1916 - 1916 E. F. Arnold 1917 - 1917 F. G. Vickers 1917 - 1918 A R. Ferguson 1918 - 1918 J. W. Kyker 1918 - 1918 H. s. Balch 1929 - 1930 F. C. Walker 1934 - 1937 B. T. Strawn 1937 - 1939 A A Johnson 1939 - 1948 H. E. Swack 1948 - 1948 W. C. Huddleston 1948 - 1949 Glen F. Nicely 1949 - 1972 Vernon W. Sims 1973 - 1977 James E. Jones 1977 - * Larry E. Archer Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1917 Jennie Moore 1917 - 1920 Sidney Standifer 1941 - 1945 Rita Orr 1946 - 1948 Sarah D. Pegram 1949 - 1950 Eudell Rippetoe 1951 - 1953 Rebecca Galyon 1953 - 1959 Laverne Farmer 1959 - 1960 Margaret Sue McNiell 1961 - 1964 Shirley F. Burchfield Whitson 1964 - 1966 Marjorie V. Campbell 1966 - 1969 Sarah Pamela Sowders Byrd 1969 - 1970 Doris J. Carpenter 1970 - 1974 Wilma Carolyn Netherland 1974 - 1978 Carolyn J. Marcy Carrier 1978 - * Mona Betsy Idles 1979 - 1980 Cynthia G. Eayre

UNION l�I This East Tennessee county has a rich musical heritage. Both Country Music Hall of Fame honoree Roy Acuff and the internationally acclaimed guitarist Chet Atkins are Union County natives. The county was named because it was a ·union· of five segments of the adjoining counties of Grainger, Claiborne, Campbell, Knox and Anderson.

Agricultural Agents 19 17 - 1917 F. G. Vickers 1918 - 1919 J. E. Kyker 1929 - 1930 C. G. Filler 1934 - 1935 P. W. Worden 1935 - 1945 J. M. Clark 1935 - 1948 C. R. Barnes 1937 - 1938 Enoch A. Latham 1939 - 1940 F. 0. Clark 1940 - 1951 B. H. Mitchell 1949 - 1975 W. Harold Julian 1951 - 1951 Charles H. Edwards 1974 - • Charles W. Morgan

Home Economics Agents 19 17 - 1919 Maude H. Miller 1928 - 1929 Lillie Oakley 1935 - 1946 Mabel Moore 1946 - 1954 Angie Fugate 1955 - 1957 Evaline Jeter Jessee 1957 - 1958 Janice D. Alford 1959 - 1963 Sue Elliott Cox 1963 - 1982 Anne S. Hobt 1982 - 1987 Deborah J. Johnson 1987 - * Sandra Andrae Vance

VAN BUREN

Van Buren County shares Fall Creek Falls State Park with neighboring Bledsoe County. The park surrounding the waterfall provides employment for many area residents. The county was named for President Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War, Bone Cave was used for making saltpeter.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1918 B. B. Gracy 1918 - 1918 N. I. Hancock 1918 - 1918 John W. Flanery 1918 - 1919 H. F. Bailey 1934 - 1939 S. M. McKissick 1939 - 1942 Arley Hamby 1942 - 1944 B. E. Winn 1944 - 1945 Dennis Patton 1945 - 1951 Arley Hamby 1951 - 1952 Robert C. Smith 1952 - 1954 Merrill D. Austin 1954 - 1955 Ernest F. Hestand 1955 - 1960 Doyle Hinds 1960 - 1969 William Rex Moore 1969 - 1975 William E. Black 1975 - * John H. Smith

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1916 Mrs. Artie W. Bryan 1918 - 1919 Carrie M. Watkins 1919 - 1919 Malinda Chance 1922 - 1927 Minnie Adsmond 1946 - 1947 Katherine Ruth Jones 1948 - 1950 Mary Corinne Grove 1950 - 1953 Phyllis E. Nichols 1953 - 1955 Imogene Walker 1955 - 1961 Crocia B. Roberson 1961 - 1961 Mary Elizabeth Walling 1961 - 1964 Greta A Brown Sain Hinds? 1964 - 1967 Wanda J. Winstead Moore 1967 - 1971 Frankie Jean Pattie 1971 - 1972 Norma Kaye Morrisette Smith 1972 - 1973 Mary Lou Henry 1974 - 1976 Janet 0. Byrne 1976 - 1977 Joanna Mullican Bailey VAN BUREN (continued)

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1977 - 1979 M. Suzanne Hege Hitchcock 1979 - 1982 Nancy B. Jones 1982 - 1985 LeeAnn A Jolley 1985 - 1985 Sandra S. Thompson 1985 - 1987 Myra Lynn Cowell 1988 - 1988 Sandra L. Smith 1989 - * Susan M. Perrin WARREN l�I Warren County is known as the "nursery capital of the South." Nursery production is the single largest source of agricultural income in the area. More than 400 certified nursery producers in the area culture more than 1500 varieties of ornamental plants on 30,000 acres. Through modern packing and shipping facilities, products move to all 50 states and several foreign countries. The county was named for the American patriot, General Joseph Warren.

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1915 - 1918 T. H. Dougherty 1918 - 1922 Will F. Story 1918 - 1918 John W. Flanery 1928 - 1930 F. W. Colby 1929 - 1930 W. J. Crowder 1930 - 1930 Greene Thomae 1931 - 1935 Alex McNeil 1935 - 1968 Hobart V. Massey 1947 - 1947 Thomas W. Bond 1948 - 1970 Herbert E. Swack 1954 - 1983 Candy L. Ayers 1969 - 1970 William L. George 1970 - 1970 John P. Jordan 1970 - 1970 Tommy S. Henard 1971 - 1972 Ronnie L. Johnson 1972 - 1975 Harlin D. Chunn 1975 - 1976 A Keith Kennedy 1977 - 1977 Gary L. Nichols 1977 - 1980 Edward M. Burns 1981 - * J. Dale Beaty 1984 - * David G. Hill WARREN (continued)

Home Economics Agents 1912 - 1917 Bettie Smithdon 1918 - 1918 Emma Peers 1922 - 1922 Mary C. Henley McCulloch 1928 - 1929 Ida Sullivan 1930 - 1930 Bess Hammons 1931 - 1936 Mildred Hicks Henegar 1931 - 1931 Gladys Old 1936 - 1944 Anna Ruth Mccorkle O'Connor 1944 - 1946 Martha Ross 1945 - 1946 Evelyn Chapman 1947 - 1951 Martha Ross 1947 - 1950 Mabel Hutchison Martin 1951 - 1952 Mary Sumner Spivey 1951 - 1953 Charlesie G. Crouch 1952 - 1954 Louise Ashburn Petty 1953 - 1955 Betty Jean Trapp Bailey 1954 - 1955 Anita Hutcheson Myers 1955 - 1957 Betsy Ruth Bass 1955 - 1957 Martha F. Raby Overall 1957 - 1962 Leoma Earline Woodall McColloch 1957 - 1960 Betty Ann Scott Sells 1960 - 1981 Mary Frances Hamilton 1962 - 1971 Dorothy Faye Hamilton 1970 - 1971 Billie Ann Wetherford 1971 - 1986 Loraine Davis Foster Sutton 1971 - 1973 Patsy K. Ring 1973 - 1974 0. Jane Orr Smith 1973 - 1976 Nelsie G. Hughes Wooden 1974 - 1984 Carol A Chandler Wrather 1976 - 1981 Brenda N. Howse Fibelkorn 1982 - 1984 Janet P. Roberts 1984 - * Hilda G. Williams Lytle 1987 - 1988 Donna F. Leslie WASHINGTON I�\ In 1770, a bill was passed by the North Carolina legislature to establish a courthouse west of the mountains. An enabling act was passed a year later to build the town of Jonesborough. The current courthouse is the fifth to be built on the site. Washington College Academy was the first school in Tennessee. Andrew Jackson studied and passed the bar while living in Jonesborough, the oldest town in Tennessee. The county was named for George Washington and founded in 1777.

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1915 - 1915 W. K. Tipton 1917 - 1917 H. H. Thomas 1917 - 1918 W. W. Smith 1922 - 1923 Carl G. Filler 1926 - 1927 W. P. Davidson 1927 - 1958 Raymond Rosson 1950 - 1964 Edward M. Henry 1959 - 1983 James L. Pipkin 1930 - 1934 John S. Robinson 1934 - 1935 Greene Thomae 1935 - 1937 Hugh Felts 1935 - 1946 Vernon Sims 1937 - 1944 Lonnie Safley 1945 - 1947 George S. Foster 1946 - 1949 Bob L. Gilley 1948 - 1948 Ronnie W. Kendall 1948 - 1951 A D. Whitson 1951 - 1954 D. W. Smith 1955 - 1955 Henry B. Pace 1956 - 1957 James P. Grove 1957 - 1959 Scott H. Bird 1959 - 1962 Jack L. Looney 1962 - 1969 Charles D. Griffin 1965 - 1966 Bobby K. Winter 1967 - 1969 Samuel Kincheloe 1969 - * Layton L. Humberd 1969 - 1971 Harold H. Hale 1972 - 1973 James Aaron Knight 1973 - 1986 Stephen R. Sutton 1985 - * Glenn K. Turner 1988 - * Michael L. Sharp WASHINGTON (continued)

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1917 - 1917 Alma I. Reese 1935 - 1937 Ruth Liggett 1937 - 1940 Lavona Townsend 1940 - 1942 Inez Lovelace 1942 - 1946 Genevieve Hay 1944 - 1948 Sarah Louise Nance 1947 - 1952 Dora Tipton 1953 - 1955 Jean Delozier McCall 1952 - 1968 Phyllis Jean Inman 1968 - * Lois C. Dixon 1948 - 1951 Elizabeth Jean Delozier McCall 1956 - 1960 Betty Lou Sewell 1960 - 1963 Bethira E. Nevils 1963 - 1968 DeAnna S. Doty 1969 - 1970 Sarah Pamela Sowders Byrd 1970 - 1986 Wonda H. Irwin Groome 1979 - 1980 Cynthia G. Eayre 1987 - * Shirlene N. Booker WAYNE

The Rock Courthouse at the entrance to Natural Bridge is the site where the Cherokee and Creek Indians once held their councils of war, smoked their peace pipes and held their last desperate meetings to discuss President Andrew Jackson's order to leave their native land. The county was named in honor of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne of Revolutionary War fame. Davy Crockett was elected a magistrate of the county.

Agricultural Agents 1917 - 1919 G. P. Dillon 1920 - 1920 Ernest E. Crockett 1927 - 1928 Otto Hunderwadel 1928 - 1928 Earl C. Morgan 1930 - 1935 T. B. Garth 1935 - 1943 C. E. Lance 1936 - 1938 Gordon Jenkins 1938 - 1939 Woodrow Luttrell 1939 - 1940 Joe P. Little 1941 - 1942 Rurrell G. Lawler 1942 - 1945 Johnie H. Bozeman 1944 - 1944 Clifton Goodlett 1945 - 1946 ?. H. Dilworth 1946 - 1957 Clifton York 1950 - 1950 John S. Smith 1952 - 1955 Melvin H. Arnett 1955 - 1956 Ernest Little 1956 - 1962 Jack E. Gervin 1957 - 1962 Charles M. Hutchinson 1962 - 1968 J. Leon Dixon 1962 - 1981 Frank L. Brown 1969 - 1977 James D. Taylor 1978 - • Kenneth M. Burress 1982 - 1988 Michael A Francis 1988 - • Dewayne L. Webb

Home Economics Agents 1918 - 1919 Mrs. Ora P. Dillon 1938 - 1942 Ophelia Elam 1944 - 1944 Nelle Jones 1945 - 1945 Elizabeth Evans 1947 - 1949 Sue Anderson WAYNE (continued)

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1949 - 1951 Mary Shelly 1951 - 1954 Alberta Pennington Yoirie 1954 - 1955 Vera McKnight 1955 - 1956 Margaret Ann Ussery 1956 - 1961 Louise Conner 1961 - 1962 Gladys Kay Sasser 1962 - 1964 Jean W. Danley 1971 - 1976 Brenda Irene Hobbs Laden 1971 - 1972 Betty 0. Carver 1972 - • Cindy Mae Smelser Spencer 1976 - 1984 Patsy A Ezell 1984 - 1989 Elsie Kay Burnett Qualls 1968 - 1969 Katherine W. Long 1964 - 1968 Nancy Jo Shutt 1969 - 1971 Martha Loraine Davis Foster 1989 - • Beverly Ann Shelby WEAKLEY

Most of the sweet potato slips produced in the United States are grown in Weakley County. The sweet potato even has its own newspaper, known as "Taterman." Five county mines process and ship more ball clay than any other county in the United States. The largest tree east of the Mississippi River, a cypress, grows in the county. Robert Weakley Ill, who seNed in the first state House of Representatives and fought in the Revolutionary War, lends his name to the county.

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1913 - 1949 R. E. Ellis 1928 - 1933 B. T. Scruggs 1937 - 1943 S. G. Garner 1943 - 1968 Aaron M. Walker 1968 - 1971 James R. McFall 1968 - 1971 Joseph P. Sutton 1971 - * Jerry C. McMaster 1971 - 1972 Joe R. Horner 1972 - 1988 Joseph P. Sutton 1976 - 1978 Aaron Keith Kennedy 1978 - * Robert C. Williams

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1916 - 1940 Jeannette T. Ellis 1940 - 1946 Marie Baker 1946 - 1947 Bonnie Jean Walker 1946 - 1946 Mrs. Walter M. Stephenson 1947 - 1950 Dorothy Lee Hall Reavis 1947 - 1959 Louise Odom Morris 1950 - 1950 Betty Bass 1951 - 1952 Anna Worley 1952 - 1964 Winnie Lee Snead Moore 1956 - 1956 Mary Joe Gillespie Larsen 1960 - 1962 Mary J. Larsen 1962 - 1964 Carrie M. Jones 1964 - 1967 Dorothy H. Wylie 1964 - 1973 Grace S. Prince 1968 - 1970 Sandra Sue Hussey 1970 - 1972 Lynda E. Richardson 1971 - 1985 Patsy C. Oliver 1973 - * Jean W. Bennett Paschall 1988 - • Rebecca K. Rhodes

WHITE l�I The Old Stage Road and the Wilderness Trail both pass through White County. Rock House is one of the few remaining structures left standing on the Old Stage Road between Knoxville and Nashville. It was originally used as a toll house and was constructed between 1835 - 1839. Famous county residents include Lester Flatt, country/bluegrass musician; Carl Rowen, syndicated columnist; and George Gibbs Dibrell, a Civil War general. The county seat is Sparta.

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1914 - 1917 C. M. Franklin 1918 - 1953 H. W. Andrews 1949 - 1965 Daniel B. Rich 1953 - 1955 Henry B. Ford 1955 - • Billy R. Jernigan 1965 - 1973 Jim R. Lynn 1973 - • Billy Charles Adcock 1986 - 1989 Clyde Webster

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1917 - 1917 Ethel W. Walker 1918 - 1919 Ruth McGhee 1919 - 1919 Jennie Baker 1920 - 1927 Sallie Duvall 1920 - 1928 Minnie Eldridge 1928 - 1943 Iva Mae Benton 1928 - 1933 Earline Brown 1943 - 1946 Charline Smith 1946 - 1951 Maude M. Elrod 1946 - 1960 Iva Mae Benton Foster 1951 - 1952 Pauline R. Lyday 1953 - 1953 Leiron Parrott McNabb 1953 - 1956 Frances L. Reeser Bumbalough 1954 - 1955 Joyce Dooley 1957 - 1959 Carolyn C. Butler 1959 - 1962 Betty Sue Carr Bilbrey 1960 - 1961 Claude Ann Huddleston Burton 1961 - 1969 Mary Kate Sinclair 1963 - 1965 Nancy Coffee Peace 1965 - 1967 Linda Crooks Ridings 1967 - 1971 Judy L. Stone 1970 - • Ella C. Johnson 1971 - " Linda J. Koger

WILLIAMSON l�I Scores of well-preserved antebellum homes grace Williamson County 's tree-lined streets and countryside as memorials to its rich heritage. Among them is the Carter House, caught in the swirling center of one of the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, and "Carnton ," a stately house on whose columned porch lay the bodies of five Confederate generals, casualties of the Battle of Franklin. Tennessee's oldest weekly newspaper, The Review Appeal, was established in Franklin in 1813.

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1915 - 1915 Neely Bowen 1916 - 1917 E. A McLean 1917 - 1919 H. P. Jones 1917 - 1917 F. W. Fleming 19 17 - 1950 G. W. Senter 19 19 - 19 19 James K. Hughes 1920 - 1921 J. Ben Thomson 1922 - 1925 Wilmer I. Smith 1926 - 1933 W. H. Rochester 1933 - 1935 H. H. Jones 1935 - 1936 Clifton Goodlet 1936 - 1941 J. D. Beasley 1937 - 1949 G. L. Cleland 1942 - 1944 William D. Crouch 1943 - 1948 Thomas H. Rose 1946 - 1983 Houston Y. Beeler 1946 - 195 1 Fred E. Cowart 1946 - 1946 Joseph C. Pedigo 1949 - 1974 Nathan J. Lowe 1974 - * James Dewayne Perry 1979 - 1980 Alfred T. MacFarland 1982 - 1984 Danny L. Smith 1984 - 1987 Barry Keith Clay 1985 - • Michael E. Smith 1987 - • Gregory L. Riggs

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1912 - 1919 Lula Chriesman 19 19 - 1921 Hattie F. Wendell 1921 - 1922 Lettie MCAipin 1923 - 1942 Virginia Carson WILLIAMSON (continued)

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1940 - 1943 Nancy Mae Smith 1942 - 1945 Jeanne Gilmore Webb 1943 - 1944 Mildred English 1944 - 1949 Laverne Epps 1946 - 1946 Sara Woods 1946 - 1947 Mary Nell Bryan 1946 - 1946 Faye S. Caruthers 1947 - 1978 Lois Crowley 1947 - 1949 Jean W. Harris 1949 - 1950 Pauline Stockston 1950 - 1953 Mildra A. Senter 1950 - 1953 Louise C. Walker 1953 - 1956 Joyce Ann Lee 1956 - 1957 Betty Ann McCulloch 1957 - 1960 Marguerite Smithson 1957 - 1969 Thelma Louise Hayes Northern 1960 - * Bernice C. Bates 1960 - 1969 Ruth Geary 1969 - 1976 Connie S. Puckett Hamilton 1977 - 1979 Johnnie H. Elliott 1977 - * Joan L. Wherley 1979 - 1980 Carole S. Wilson 1981 - 1987 Melanie May Robinson 1989 - * Patsy A Ezell WILSON

To the early settlers, this area reminded them of the dense cedar forest which existed in the Biblical land of Lebanon. The Tennessee cedar is not a true cedar, but a juniper, a close cousin. The Cedars of Lebanon State Park was established in the 1930s as a reforestation project of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The county was named for Major David Wilson, a member of the state legislature at the time of the county's founding in 1799. Sam Houston practiced law in the county seat town of Lebanon.

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1915 - 1920 W. P. Stanford 1916 - 1920 W. K. Tipton 1917 - 1918 E. R. Shockley 1921 - 1923 Carl G. Filler 1934 - 1936 Louis Sawyer 1936 - 1939 Webster Pendergrass 1936 - 1973 James E. Ward 1944 - 1946 Haga William Carter 1946 - 1979 Wiley T. Bernard 1955 - 1979 Melvin H. Arnett 1974 - 1977 R. Stanley Hayes 1977 - 1980 Robert Burney 1979 - • J. W. McGuire 1979 - • Jon M. Baker 1980 - 1984 Floyd David Rutter 1985 - * Mitchell C. Beaty

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1917 - 1917 llah W. Polhill 1917 - 1919 Seth McCallen 1921 - 1925 Mary S. Henderson 1935 - 1946 Claire Gilbert 1946 - 1948 Bettie Lou Mitchell Carmichael 1946 - 1946 Virginia L. Wilson 1948 - 1950 Ruth Sneed 1950 - 1951 Joy Wren 1951 - 1955 Betty Jo Robertson 1955 - 1959 Winifred Fly Murphree 1955 - 1978 Jean Matlow Tyree 1959 - 1968 Anne Lee Stark WILSON (continued)

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1969 - * Glenda K. Booker 1977 - 1982 Virginia M. Swoopes 1978 - * Connie Puckett Hamilton 1983 - * Jacqueline O. Waters King

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